Encore: Owl pursuits

Endless Thread by WBUR

Sep 4, 202600:24:57Technology

This episode was originally published on March 10, 2023. In 2022, freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill got a new neighbor: an owl. What wasn't clear was whether the owl was trying to befriend them,...

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