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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl Paperback - 2009
by Stacey O'Brien
With heartwarming sentiment, biologist and owl expert O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned, baby barn owl--and their astonishing and unprecedented 19-year life together. Photos.
Summary
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. 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). She watched him turn from a helpless fluff ball into an avid communicator with whom she developed a language all their own. 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. 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. As OâÈçBrien gets close to Wesley, she makes astonishing discoveries about owl behavior, intelligence, and communication, coining the term âÈêThe Way of the OwlâÈë to describe his noble behavior. When OâÈçBrien develops her own life-threatening illness, the biologist who saved the life of a helpless baby bird is herself rescued from death by the insistent love and courage of this wild animal.
Enhanced by wonderful photographs, Wesley the Owl is a thoroughly engaging, heartwarming, often funny story of a complex, emotional, non-human being capable of reason, play, and, most important, love and loyalty. Translated into eight languages and named an Audubon Magazine EditorâÈçs Choice, Wesley the Owl is sure to be cherished by animal lovers everywhere.
Enhanced by wonderful photographs, Wesley the Owl is a thoroughly engaging, heartwarming, often funny story of a complex, emotional, non-human being capable of reason, play, and, most important, love and loyalty. Translated into eight languages and named an Audubon Magazine EditorâÈçs Choice, Wesley the Owl is sure to be cherished by animal lovers everywhere.
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- Title Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
- Author Stacey O'Brien
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atria Books, New York
- Date 2009-06-02
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781416551775 / 1416551778
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.60 cm)
- Reading level 1090
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Barn owl - California, Southern, Barn owl - Behavior - California, Southern
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"Stacey O'Brien tells the intriguing story of how her life was changed and rearranged when she attempted to tame and raise Wesley -- a barn owl. She shows us how she was ultimately repaid with his love and devotion, and given glimpses into the mind of an animal that has an unexpected ability to understand human language and to communicate. Fascinating!"
-- Stanley Coren, psychologist and author of How Dogs Think and Why Does My Dog Act That Way?
Citations
- People Weekly, 08/10/2009, Page 49
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