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    Barn Owls as Peacemakers

    Oct 01, 2019 5 minutes
    by Janie Chodosh

    Imagine it’s your birthday. Your friends arrive for a party. Or perhaps you’re having dinner with loved ones. But instead of presents, you get owls. Fifteen of them.

    That’s more or less what happened to Yossi Leshem, Israel’s most well-known ornithologist. He is a professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University and the founder and director of the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration. In 1982, the Tel Aviv Zoo had too many barn owls. Not knowing what to do with them, they gave the owls to Leshem. The scientist carefully packed them into a van and took them to a kibbutz (a communal farm or settlement in Israel) in the Hula Valley. Leshem delivered the owls to Yehuda Weiss, a project coordinator

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