The Wildlife Center is pleased to welcome Dr. Adam Naylor as our new Veterinary Intern.    

The Center typically has three veterinarians on staff — a veterinary director [Dr. Dave], a two-year veterinary fellow [Dr. Miranda], and a one-year veterinary internship.   Dr. Adam will be with us until July 2012.

Dr. Adam is from Bristol,  in the western part of England.   He attended the Royal Veterinary College in London and as a student there completed externships at the Bristol Zoo, London Zoo, Whipsnade Wildlife Park, CERCOPAN primate rescue center in Nigeria, and the Australian Wildlife Hospital at Australia Zoo.  Dr. Adam also assisted with a health assessment survey of the famous Trafalgar Square pigeons and spent a year researching blood profiles of a highly endangered captive-reared Madagascan river turtle species.

Since graduating, Dr. Adam has worked in the UK at one of the biggest pet exotics referral hospitals, which specializes in reptiles.  He completed his Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Certificate of Advanced Veterinary Practice in zoo medicine in 2010 through the Royal (Dick) Veterinary School in Edinburgh.   

Dr. Adam hopes to take a position as a zoo veterinarian one day.  While at the Wildlife Center, he is particularly interested in getting more clinical experience with a wide variety of avian species. 

Dr. Adam in settling in at the Center — and while he does enjoy working with turtles and tortoises, it’s probably too early for him to have a favorite Virginia wildlife species. 

While his favorite pets are his guinea pigs [which are at home in England], since coming to the U.S. Dr. Adam has adopted a goldfish named Ms. Nina Simone.