Member Event: Exceptional Adaptations Part 2 by Barbara Ray

Description: When we understand the specialized and often amazing sensory and behavioral adaptations of wildlife, we can use that knowledge to provide better environments and use more targeted techniques when handling, feeding or providing other care.  We will learn about the effects of our lights, ambient noise, scent, tactile features and other aspects of our human care environments on the neuro-endocrine systems of animal patients. The adaptations that help wildlife thrive out in nature can be the very adaptations that inhibit quick healing. We can use these adaptive features to our advantage to help patients heal and return to the wild as quickly and wholey as possible.

Bio: Barbara Ray received her Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from Ohio State University. She is the Nature Education Coordinator for Dublin Parks and has been a wildlife mammal and raptor Rehabilitator since 1981. She has been a chair of Emerging Diseases and Rabies Vector since 2008…