Dietary biology of the Eurasian eagle-owl own weight, and will kill the young of much larger species such as European otter ("Lutra lutra") and Eurasian badger ("Meles meles"). However, the single most widely reported carnivore is the red fox ("Vulpes vulpes"), as they’ve been recorded in the diet from Denmark and Spain to the Russian Far East. Many fox specimens taken by eagle-owls are young individuals or subadults. Some studies posited that the average fox taken as weighing about , about equal to the eagle-owl’s own weight, but another noted fox specimens killed that were estimated to weigh , much larger than the eagle-owls. At least
River Meles until recently. This stream was alternatively called "Kemer Brook" ("Kemer Çayı") or, especially in western sources, as the "Caravan Bridge Brook", by the name of a historic bridge, also celebrated in literature, which checked the entry into the city of İzmir throughout the 19th century. The flow of this stream varies from a full rush of water in winter to a trickle, even a dry bed, in summer. In the light of descriptions by Aristides and other accounts dating from the Roman imperial age, this stream seems, in fact, to be the weakest candidate for association with Homer's Meles. Roman-era