![]() ![]() ![]() OâÈçBrien also brings us inside CaltechâÈçs prestigious research community, a kind of scientific Hogwarts where resident owls sometimes flew freely from office to office and eccentric, brilliant scientists were extraordinarily committed to studying and helping animals all of them were changed by the animals they loved. Eventually he became a gorgeous, gold-and-white macho adult with a heart-shaped face who preened in the mirror and objected to visits by any other males to âÈêhisâÈë house. ![]() She watched him turn from a helpless fluff ball into an avid communicator with whom she developed a language all their own. Over the next nineteen years, OâÈçBrien studied WesleyâÈçs strange habits with both a tender heart and a scientistâÈçs eyeâÈ'and provided a mice-only diet that required her to buy the rodents in bulk (28,000 over the owlâÈçs lifetime). On ValentineâÈçs Day 1985, biologist Stacey OâÈçBrien adopted Wesley, a baby barn owl with an injured wing who could not have survived in the wild. ![]()
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