About a year ago, a eurasian owl named Flaco escaped from the Central Park Zoo. He became an instant celebrity. For days zoo workers and wildlife specialists tried to capture him to bring him back, but he had none of it. He didn’t know how to hunt and they were worried for his survival. Would he know how to avoid cars, could he really find food? Of cour…
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