The great horned owl is the primary nocturnal bird morph used by the core Animorphs, minus Tobias.

Acquiring

In The Capture, set in 1997, Cassie and Rachel acquired great horned owl morphs.^[1][2][3] while Jake, Marco, and Ax acquired them by The Secret.^{[note 1]} Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad also acquired an owl morph in The Other, although it was not specified if his owl morph was a great horned owl.^[4]

Usage

Originally used by Cassie and Rachel to guard Jake while he was infested by Temrash 114, the great horned owl morph quickly became the Animorphs' usual nocturnal bird morph, due to the fact that owls possess night time vision akin to the daytime vision their bird-of-prey morphs possess. Tobias is the only one of the core six not to have an owl morph, possibly due to the fact that he cannot easily acquire other birds in his hawk form.

Appearances

• The Encounter (mentioned)
• The Capture (acquired and morphed by Cassie and Rachel)
• The Stranger (morphed by Rachel)
• The Andalite's Gift (morphed by Rachel and Cassie)
• The Secret (acquired by Jake, Marco and Ax; morphed by Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Marco, and Ax)^{[note 1]}
• The Android (morphed by Marco, Jake, Rachel, Cassie, and Ax)
• The Reaction (morphed by Cassie)
• The Change (morphed by Cassie)
• The Unknown (morphed by Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Marco, and Ax)
• In the Time of Dinosaurs (morphed by Rachel and Cassie)
• The Departure (morphed by Jake, Rachel, Marco, and Ax)
• The Threat (morphed by Rachel and Cassie)
• The Solution (morphed by Rachel)
• The Experiment (morphed by Marco and Ax)
• The Sickness (morphed by Rachel and partially morphed by Cassie)
• Elfangor's Secret (morphed by Rachel)
• The Conspiracy (morphed by Marco)
• The Separation (morphed by Mean Rachel, Jake, Nice Rachel, Cassie, Marco, and Ax)
• The Illusion (morphed by Jake)
• The Prophecy (morphed by Cassie)
• The Proposal (morphed by Marco)
• The Mutation (morphed by Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Marco, and Ax)
• The Arrival (morphed by Cassie)
• The Hidden (morphed by Rachel; possibly morphed by Jake and/or Marco and/or Ax)
• The Other (morphed by Marco/unknown owl, morphed by Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad)
• The Journey (morphed by Jake, Cassie, Marco, Ax, and Rachel)
• The Test (morphed by Ax)
• The Resistance (morphed by Jake)
• The Ultimate (morphed by Cassie/cover morph)
• The Sacrifice (morphed by Rachel)
• The Beginning (mentioned)

Known Morphers

• Cassie
• Rachel
• Jake
• Marco
• Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill
• Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad (unknown owl)

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