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APRIL 18, 2021

Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? However… Tracy starts us off. “A Soaked and ice cold!

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 278

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MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Two: Humans are diurnal, which means they are normally active during the day. million-year-old early human. Feel free to vent!”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 174

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued. Starving and dehydrated, they were taken into care by Dr. Helene von Doninck of Cobequid Wildlife Centre .

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Canada Wildlife South America 201

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JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 259