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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny. Instead, bring your child to fundraisers, to sanctuaries, to demonstrations with trained education animals. I know nothing about kids.

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Sepilok: Worth a Second Look

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At any rate, my brief visit to Sepilok showed me that it is a worthy destination in its own right. Sepilok is a spotlighter’s dream, and our hotel organised a trip for us with a warden from the Orangutan Sanctuary. In retrospect I would have picked trying to hit both, but perhaps that would have been unsatisfying too.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel.

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Comebackers

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However, these islands that were predator-free sanctuaries eventually turned into ecological sinks. Rabbits were introduced to the island by guano miners, which turned the previously verdant island into a giant sand dune; almost all vegetation was wiped out. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. What a horror!

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