Wildlife Center of Virginia Blog

Why Wildlife?

I have always felt driven to find a path to work with wildlife. With my children nearly raised and my career heading in a meaningful direction, now seemed like the time to get my foot in that door. My 12-week rehabilitation externship at the WCV has been an amazing and significant experience that has expanded my knowledge base, skill, and muscles in a myriad of ways. I learned that being a wildlife rehabilitator is a hard, hard job. I learned that is a wonderful job.

My Donation Explanation

At the end of December 2011, one of our supporters sent us a donation, along with this explanation. Since then, she continues the tradition every holiday season. With the 2015 holiday season upon us, we thought you would enjoy reading this as much as we do every year at this time!

Holy Hibernators and Crazy Craniums

Hello, I’m Adam Lepold, a recent graduate of UW-Wisconsin who has a love for animals, brains, and animals' brains. Over the course of my studies, I have learned about many of the amazing abilities of animal brains that are still baffling the world’s top researchers. I’m going to tell you all some cool stuff about mammalian brains and why true hibernating mammals have some of the coolest brains.

The Other Gender Gap

I learned about wildlife rehabilitation from my biology advisor about two years ago. I didn’t know much about the field, but I want to be a veterinarian one day, working with wildlife. This externship seemed like it would be a great match, and I would get a chance to gain some animal experience. What I didn’t know was that this field was female-dominated.

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