Spotting a wild owl injured on the side of a country road near their ranch, a Georgia couple driving by knew they had to turn around. Little did they know the encounter would form a lasting friendship with the feathered apex predator—whom they would name Ko-Ko. “It’s not normal to see an animal just sitting on the side of the road,” said Joshua Brown, 33, a medically retired Army deep-sea diver who, with his wife, Lesdy, 27, now runs an off-the-grid cattle ranch near Augusta. They video recorded the encounter: approaching the grounded bird that had been hit by a car, the owl staring at them helplessly. They saw blood on his beak. “If it weren’t for how in tune with nature we’ve had to be, I wouldn’t have felt so confident,” Joshua told The Epoch Times. They were able to take him home and started building a bond of …