“We used to talk about how owls weren’t intelligent,” she says. “They just had all these great adaptations for survival and didn’t really need to have a lot of smarts. They were acting pretty much only from instinct rather than from learning. But I’ve made a complete one-eighty from this, totally changed my mind. Owls certainly hatch with a lot of the tools they need, but they learn throughout their whole lives. Their survival depends on it.
