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Okay, this isn’t really geek-related … unless you pretend that this is the familiar of one of Harry Potter’s friends, which of course he is. I just had to post it. Oh, wait! This totally qualifies as science, because I’ve just learned that owls can swim! Science!

Yes, a great horned owl actually swam to escape some peregrine falcons by diving into Lake Michigan at a Chicago park. This may be my favorite owl video ever, followed closely by the creepy gif I’ve added below.

Happy Friday!

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Jenna Busch

Jenna Busch is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Legion of Leia and has hosted and written for sites like Nerdist, ComingSoon.net, Metro, Birth. Movies. Death., IGN, AOL, Huffington Post and more. She co-hosted Cocktails With Stan with the legendary Stan Lee and has appeared on Attack of the Show, Fresh Ink, Tabletop with Wil Wheaton, in the documentary She Makes Comics, on NPR and Al Jazeera America, and has covered film/TV/gaming/comics for years. She's currently a co-host on Most Craved. She's been published in the comics anthology Womanthology, is a chapter author for Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind, Game of Thrones Psychology and Star Trek Psychology and more, and owns a terrifying amount of swords and 20-sided dice. There are also those My Little Pony trailer voice overs that give one nightmares.