Sunday, June 8, 2014

185 species

It's been over 4 years since I started getting paid to be a full-time wildlife veteriarian and I'm still loving it.  I often forget how lucky I am to have a career I love....

In 2012, our center admitted over 185 speices, ranging from birds and mammals to amphibians and reptiles. Each of those species has a different life cycle, different diet different habitt, different natural history everything....if we don't replicate these details in captivity as close to nature as we can, we can often have iatrogenic injuries....iatrogenic means that we (the caretakers) caused them.