When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. India is currently weathering an endangered owl crisis, and Harry Potter may be partly to blame.

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People will go to great lengths to imitate pop culture characters they adore, and Harry Potter fans are no different. Forget the cheesy Halloween costumes and silly accents: Some fans even adopted pet ...

Harry Potter invited us into a world of wands, witches, and wizards, but he may have affected the lives of owls here in the real world as well. In 2001, the first Harry Potter movie was released, ...

In the new movie, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" the young wizard keeps a snowy owl named Hedwig in a birdcage in his room. In the 1985 movie, "Out of Africa," Karen Blixen is given a baby ...

Wizards in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery can now add a pet to their dorm. Players can own up to four pets - one of each type; owl, rat, cat and toad. They're not free though. Hogwarts Mystery has a ...

If you want your very own Hedwig (or Scabbers), this new Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery update is for you – as the mobile game is now allowing everyone to have a pet. The options available are a rat ...

The success of "Harry Potter" has led to a surge in demand for pet owls across Asia — and it may be threatening conservation efforts, researchers have warned. In the paper "The Harry Potter effect: ...

Owls were rarely recorded in the country’s bird markets in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, but this trend appears to have changed in the late 2000s. Surveys of 20 bird markets in Java and Bali ...

They were supposed to be a secret, but when word leaked that the new “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” in London was using real owls during performances, fans of the saga went wild on social media.