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To hand rear and rehabilitate a wild animal means to return an animal back into its natural habitat in such a condition that the animal can, initially, survive the elements and, secondly, effectively re-enter its social hierarchy.
The ultimate objective, in successful rehabilitation, is for that individual animal to breed and pass its genes into the wild population.
Nursing, care and managing these animals requires intimate knowledge of the requirements (nutrition) and habits of the various species, as well as an understanding and ability to adapt those requirements to a captive and compromised condition.
The care, nursing and hand rearing of an animal is therefore a process. This process has various important stages that one has to be aware of.
The hand rearing and care of birds, antelopes, cats, primates, rhino and elephants will be discussed.
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