Wildlife Rehabilitation

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Wildlife Rehabilitation

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Providing professional care to sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals to return them to their natural habitat.

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Regulations prohibiting possession of wildlife for over 24 hours, raising or caring for wildlife, disturbing native bird nests, or possessing parts of native birds.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation

Providing professional care to sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals to return them to their natural habitat.

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Laws

Regulations prohibiting possession of wildlife for over 24 hours, raising or caring for wildlife, disturbing native bird nests, or possessing parts of native birds.

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Funding

Wildlife rehabilitation relies on non-profits, volunteers, with minimal government funding, and few paid staff.

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Reasons for Rehabilitation

Human interactions cause injuries to wildlife, like car accidents, litter, and habitat disturbances.

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Stress Management

To keep wildlife wild, avoid contact, eye contact, and minimize handling to prevent stress-related deaths.

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Imprinting on Humans

Irreversible bonding with humans, especially in birds, leading to behavioral changes and inability to integrate or be released.

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Habituation

A lesser form of tameness that can be reversed with longer rehabilitation and more resources.

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Risks

Wildlife face risks like malnutrition, zoonotic diseases, untreated injuries, improper release, and euthanasia for behavioral issues.

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Rehabilitation Techniques

Include using foster parents, mirrors, raising with buddies, and puppets for feeding during the rehabilitation process.

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Admission Process

Determining if the animal truly needs help, assessing injuries, and considering survival prognosis, species, and resources.

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Treatment

Involves rehydration, medications, wound care, surgery, physical therapy, and nursing skills to prepare animals for release.

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Release

Animals must be able to recognize food, mate, reproduce, avoid dangers, and be in good physical condition before release back into the wild.

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Career Options

Wildlife rehabilitation offers career paths as a CVT or DVM at a center, licensed rehabilitator, or in research with various organizations.

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Volunteering

Provides opportunities to gain experience in the field, with commitments ranging from weekly to internships lasting 6 months to a year.

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Safe Wildlife Capture

Involves planning, safety considerations, appropriate gear, and methods for capturing and transporting injured wildlife to rehabilitators.