News & Stories: Hawk Talk Newsletter
Hawk Talk Newsletter
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WMC Manager Exit Interview
We sat down with our previous senior manager, Riley Dunwoody, and asked her a few questions to reflect on her time in the Wildlife Medical…
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The Incredible Virginia Opossum
Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) has 50 teeth, a prehensile tail, opposable thumbs, can play dead to escape predation, is resistant…
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The Importance of Enrichment in Wildlife Patients
Enrichment, What is it? Wildlife patients seen at the Wildlife Medical Clinic are very different from other patients typically seen in veterinary medicine. While most…
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How to Protect Wildlife When Fishing
Join Program Coordinator, Sydney Oliveira, as she visits CiLiving to discuss safe practices when fishing to help minimize your impact on wildlife and the environment.
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Domestic or Wild? The Snowshoe Hare
Order Lagomorpha Rabbits are often misidentified as rodents, but they actually belong to the taxonomic order Lagomorpha. Within this group are two families: Leporidae, which…
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Visiting the New Education Classroom
CiLiving recently visited the Wildlife Medical Clinic and chatted with WMC Program Coordinator, Sydney Oliveira, about the clinic’s new education classroom and programs offered in…
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Rabbit Fever, People, and Pets
Earlier this year, the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District identified Tularemia, also known as Rabbit Fever, in several dead squirrels from the Champaign area. While Tularemia…
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Eastern Gray Squirrel 25-1701
Initial Exam and Findings Patient 25-1701 was an adult eastern gray squirrel that presented to the clinic on August 16th, for a possible head injury…
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A Troubled Turtle
Eastern Box Turtle 25-611 Meet 25-611, a male eastern box turtle. He came to us with an aural abscess–an issue commonly seen with turtles of…
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Illinois Threatened and Endangered Species
Since joining the Wildlife Medical Clinic at the University of Illinois I have learned a lot about common species found in Illinois, anatomical differences in…