As O’Brien gets close to Wesley, she makes astonishing discoveries about owl behavior, intelligence, and communication, coining the term “The Way of the Owl” to describe his noble behavior.
O’Brien also brings us inside Caltech’s 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 “his” 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, O’Brien studied Wesley’s strange habits with both a tender heart and a scientist’s eye-and provided a mice-only diet that required her to buy the rodents in bulk (28,000 over the owl’s lifetime). On Valentine’s Day 1985, biologist Stacey O’Brien adopted Wesley, a baby barn owl with an injured wing who could not have survived in the wild.
Published by Atria Books on June 2nd 2009 Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien
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