His wings were too damaged to fly 💔
Published on Jan 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
As fires continue to devastate Los Angeles, countless people and animals have been injured and left without homes. But among all the destruction, there have been glimmers of hope.
Joanne, a resident of Altadena, California, tragically lost her family’s home to the fire. When she and her girlfriend, Lauren, returned to her neighborhood, the devastation was difficult to fathom. It seemed nothing had survived. Well, almost nothing.
Surveying the rubble, a tiny face with huge, round eyes came into view — an owl. At first, Lauren and Joanne were baffled. Why would an owl be sitting in a burned-down home?
Then, they realized he couldn’t fly away.
“He needs help,” Lauren said in a TikTok. “He’s injured.”
Upon closer inspection, they realized that his wings had gotten burned.
“You have golf ball size embers flying at, like, probably 90 miles per hour,” Lauren told The Dodo. “And I’m sure it got caught on his wing and just singed the heck out of it.”
Despite everything they were going through, Lauren and Joanne took it upon themselves to rescue the owl. As soon as they took him in their arms, he relaxed.
“After we caught him, he’s like, ‘You know what? I think they’re here to help me and I’m just going to lay here and just be,’” Lauren said.
Thankfully, the owl’s injuries weren’t too severe — the only parts of him that were singed were his feathers. Lauren and Joanne transported him to a local wildlife rescue, where he’ll recover until he’s well enough to return to the wild.
“He’s doing very well,” Lauren said.
In no time at all, the smoke will clear, the owl’s feathers will grow back and he’ll fly again.
To support Joanne’s family, you can make a donation to their GoFundMe here.
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Conservationists Notice Something Strange About Wild Animal’s Horns
“[He] could have easily rubbed it off …”
By Ashley Ortiz
While trekking through the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana one day, conservationist and wildlife photographer Dr. Jess Isden spotted something unusual about an animal she’d often encountered. She was used to seeing remnants of spider webs on male gemsbok, a species of oryx — but the one she saw that day was unlike any other.
“We saw several gemsbok with webs in their horns, but none quite as thick and dense as this!” Dr. Isden wrote on Instagram.
The conservationist and her colleagues were shocked to find the gemsbok’s horns layered with thick spider webs. They could see spiders living in it, whom they expected would soon be evicted once the gemsbok inevitably rubbed his horns on some brush.
But days later, when they encountered the same gemsbok, they realized nothing had changed.
“[W]e saw them over several days with the web still intact,” Dr. Isden wrote.
You can see the webbed gemsbok here: