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'''Hoot''',<ref>''Super Mario 64 [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]'', pg. 29</ref> or the '''Owl''',<ref>(June 10, 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/19980610064302/http://www.nintendo.com:80/n64/super_mario64/2-4.html Course 2 - Star 4: Red Coins on the Floating Isle]. ''Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy'' (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved February 23, 2018.</ref> is a friendly owl who sleeps in a tree near [[Whomp's Fortress]] in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. When [[Mario]] climbs into his tree, Hoot complains that Mario woke him up when it is still during the day, but will then offer to give Mario a ride to the top of the fortress. When the player wants Mario to ride Hoot, they should press and hold the {{button|n64|a}} button ({{button|ds|b}} in the DS remake) on the controller. If the player wants Mario to let go, they should simply let go of the {{button|n64|a}}/{{button|ds|b}} button, and Hoot will then return to near his tree (and will remain awake for the rest of the mission). The player can have Mario ride Hoot for as long as he would like. However, if Mario hangs on to Hoot for too long, Hoot will complain that Mario's weight is making it difficult for him to carry him for so long. He will then drop Mario, telling him to "lay off the pasta," and then return to near his tree. Depending on where in the sky Mario is, Hoot's action of letting him go could result in Mario's death.

Hoot later appears in [[Cool, Cool Mountain]] during all missions; in [[Snowman's Land]] and [[Tall, Tall Mountain]] during all but the first; and on the huge part of [[Tiny-Huge Island]] during all but the first two in the DS remake. In this game, Mario, [[Luigi]], [[Wario]], and [[Yoshi]] can all hang on to him.