Baker Hasan Barakat, Shaul Aviel, and Dr. Safwan Fawzi examine a barn owl, a symbol of cross-cultural cooperation across the Jordan River after Israeli farmers told Jordanians how they used the birds to ward off crop-destroying rats. - AP

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