Helping An Injured Wild Chelonian - Reptiles Magazine

Helping An Injured Wild Chelonian - Reptiles Magazine

As the human population continues to grow, human-wildlife conflict and interactions increase in frequency. An unfortunate group of animals caught in the crosshairs are chelonians, or turtles and tortoises. The practice I work at sees wildlife, and many times we will see wild chelonians present to the clinic for trauma, most commonly caused by car, but also by animal attack such as dog bites and fish hook ingestion. This article plans on going ov…