RSPCA Wildlife Department, Wilberforce Way, Southwater, West Sussex RH13 9RS.
Vet Rec. 2013 Feb 23;172(8):211. doi: 10.1136/vr.101139. Epub 2013 Jan 12.
Wildlife rehabilitation is defined as 'the treatment and temporary care of injured, diseased, and displaced indigenous animals, and the subsequent release of healthy animals to appropriate habitats in the wild' (Miller 2012). Vets are frequently presented with wildlife casualties and although there are a number of texts available to help vets with the treatment of wild animals, such as the BSAVA Manual of Wildlife Casualties (Mullineaux and others 2003) and papers produced by experienced wildlife vets (eg, Bexton and Couper 2010, Couper and Bexton 2012), there still remains questions regarding which individual animals can, or should, be treated, which animals will survive treatment and which animals will survive after they have been released back to the wild. The RSPCA believes that the welfare of wildlife casualties can be improved by investigating which injuries or illnesses are most likely to result in a successful release for each species, and by collecting data on postrelease survivorship. As a result, there have been a number of papers published based on the work of the RSPCA's four wildlife centres: East Winch in Norfolk, Mallydams Wood in East Sussex, Stapeley Grange in Cheshire and West Hatch in Somerset. This paper summarises this research, to guide those in the profession with an interest in this subject to papers that may prove useful to them.
野生动物康复被定义为“对受伤、患病和流离失所的本土动物进行治疗和临时护理，并将健康动物随后释放到野外的适宜栖息地”（米勒 2012 年）。兽医经常会遇到野生动物伤亡情况，尽管有许多文本可帮助兽医治疗野生动物，例如 BSAVA 野生动物伤亡手册（穆林诺克斯等人 2003 年）和经验丰富的野生动物兽医撰写的论文（例如，贝克斯顿和库珀 2010 年，库珀和贝克斯顿 2012 年），但仍存在一些问题，例如哪些个体动物可以或应该接受治疗、哪些动物经过治疗后能够存活、以及哪些动物在被放回野外后能够存活。英国防止虐待动物协会认为，可以通过调查哪些伤病最有可能导致每个物种的成功释放，并收集关于释放后存活率的数据，来改善野生动物伤亡的福利。因此，基于英国防止虐待动物协会四个野生动物中心的工作，已经发表了许多论文：诺福克的伊斯特温奇、东萨塞克斯的马利丹斯伍德、柴郡的斯泰普利格兰奇和萨默塞特的韦斯特哈奇。本文总结了这项研究，旨在为对此主题感兴趣的专业人士提供可能对他们有用的论文。
