The bird had become trapped in a truck-mounted concrete mixer, leaving hardened concrete caked across the owl's small body, from his face to his tail feathers. Richwalski took the owl to the Utah wildlife sanctuary where he works. He and other caregivers spent days meticulously removing the concrete with forceps, toothbrushes and dish soap.
The baby turtle was found stranded in New South Wales's Booderee national park last April, much further south than the usual hatching grounds. After days of feeding on squid, sardines and marine vitamins, BB, whose sex cannot be determined until it is fully mature, revived. Through winter, BB remained in heated rehabilitation pools to thermoregulate while offshore waters remained too cold.
Khao Tom, a two-month-old elephant, plays with a wildlife officer, nudging his face and curling her trunk around his wrist. When she lifts her trunk in the air, signalling that she is hungry, the team at the rescue centre seems relieved she has not been eating well. A vet prepares a pint-sized bottle of formula, which she gulps down impatiently.
The plane pushed through wall after wall of sleet on its descent into Manchester. I'd had a sinking feeling during the flight that only deepened as I shuffled through the terminal. I resented having to be back in the city where I had grown up, after living on the other side of the world for what had felt like a lifetime.
That could be deadly for young sea otters, according to Shayla Zink, who works at the center in Morro Bay. That pup is really relying on everything it learns from the mother to be able to survive in the ocean, Zink said, adding that a mother sea otter cares for her pup for up to nine months, often carrying her small baby on her chest.
One of the biggest threats to pangolins globally is habitat loss, but here in Singapore, road accidents are a larger immediate threat. We live in an urban city but we have a lot of wildlife all around us as well, so some encounters are inevitable. I work as a veterinarian at Mandai Wildlife Group, which manages the Singapore Zoo. In this image, taken in May, I'm examining Berani, a big male Sunda pangolin ( Manis javanica), at our facilities in the zoo.
The Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA is giving a presentation about the Wildlife Care Center in Saratoga on Nov. 1. The care center opened in March. Staff will be presenting about the wildlife programs and facilities they use to treat sick, injured or orphaned animals before releasing them back into the wild. The presentation is scheduled from 1-2 p.m. in the Maple Room of Saratoga Library.
The hawk was found, unable to fly, on a picnic table at a San Jose park in late July, suffering from an open head wound and tearing and swelling in her right eye impacting her vision, which is integral to hunting for food, according to a press release from PHS/SPCA. The hawk was brought to the PHS/SPCA's San Jose wildlife intake center, where it was stabilized
Seal Rescue Ireland, based in Courtown, Co Wexford, has an extensive network of volunteers around the country who rescue distressed seals and transport them to the charity's care facility. Seal Rescue Ireland is a charity dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick, injured, or orphaned seals. Founded in 2010, the charity was originally based in Dingle, Co Kerry, before a large storm in 2014 destroyed their original facility and caused them to move to their current home in Courtown, Co Wexford.
The White Stork Project in Sussex has sought to create new colonies of rehabilitated injured birds at Knepp and Wadhurst Park since 2016, with its first success in breeding occurring in 2020.
"No dallying here! Dilly Dally is back home," the Loggerhead Marinelife Center noted, celebrating the release of the loggerhead turtle into the Atlantic after rehabilitation.
