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nature's ER, except the patients don't fill out insurance forms and often bite the nurse.
means the practice of rehabilitating injured, orphaned, or displaced wild animals with the goal of releasing them back into the wild.
from grew from scattered backyard efforts by bird-lovers and hunters-turned-conservationists in the mid-1900s into a licensed profession after wildlife protection laws made it illegal to just keep an owl in your garage.
golden ruleminimize human contact so animals stay wild
top patientsbaby birds fallen from nests, mostly needlessly
legal statususually requires a government-issued rehabilitation permit
success mythmost rescues end in release, not adoption