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The Queen

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The naturalist got out of his car, picked her up, took the tape off her legs, and took her to a local zoo. A group of us gathered to release her near the spot where she was found. One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. She was tired, thin, and had several medical issues. to find out her actual age.

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Winging It In Tulsa

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I recently traveled to Oklahoma to help spread the word of wildlife, finding all kinds of adventure along the way. Since wildlife rehabilitators are in short supply wherever you go, we tend to forge internet friendships; then the fact that our closest compatriots may live thousands of miles away isn’t such a problem.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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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. This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years.