"Exactly," he agrees. "I should get some flight practice in, but I want them all to be used to me without feeling proprietary."

He does, however, circle back to her earlier question, for all she may have meant it to be rhetorical: "Hard to find an expert to teach you on an animal everyone thought was extinct less than decade ago. But I have to think we might be able to find some information from sources beyond trial and error. I generally try to take good information wherever I can find it. Lots more options for cows than griffons, but even so."