About this Wildlife Clinic website

Animal Institute

The Animal Institute (opens in a new tab) is a 100%-volunteer 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit animal protection organization in Cobb County, Georgia U.S.A.

It previously operated a wildlife clinic facility that addressed injured, ill, and orphaned animals.

Now it provides expert guidance and educational resources for wildlife questions, concerns, conflicts, and emergencies through the features and content of this Wildlife Clinic website.

Chris Benson

Chris Benson is the Cofounder and Managing Director of the Animal Institute (opens in a new tab), and Managing Editor of this Wildlife Clinic website. As the Managing Editor, everything published here is approved by Chris Benson before going live.

In addition to being a wildlife educator, he is an experienced wildlife rehabilitator who is licensed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GA DNR), and is also certified by GA DNR for "rabies vector species" (RVS).

Advisors

Dr. Justin and Cassie Verner at Sweetwater Creek Animal Hospital (opens in a new tab).

Jackie Wilcox, Licensed RVS Wildlife Rehabilitator at Lucky's Place Wildlife Rescue & Rehab (opens in a new tab).

Joanne Benson, Director at the Animal Institute (opens in a new tab).

This is not a clinic facility

Wildlife Clinic is a publication. We do not accept animals, we do not treat animals, and we cannot come and collect one. If an animal needs care it needs a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, and the fastest route to one is the found-an-animal flow.

Photographs and rights

Every photograph here is credited under the picture, and the credit links to the terms it is used under. That is not decoration. Most freely available photography is licensed on condition that the attribution stays visible, so a credit that went missing would make the use unlicensed.

Photographs credited to a Creative Commons or public domain licence may be reused on those licences' own terms, which the credit links to. Photographs marked all rights reserved may not. Those are the photographer's own work, published here by permission, and permission to appear on this site is not permission to be taken from it. If you want to use one, ask the photographer named in the credit.

Photographers keep their copyright, but grant the Animal Institute's Wildlife Clinic permission to publish it on this website and its newsletter, credited to you - the copyright holder. It's important to note that if the permission is granted to Animal Institute's Wildlife Clinic by the copyright holder, that permission is perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, and royalty-free.

We are always short of good photographs of common animals doing ordinary things: a fledgling on a lawn, a fox in daylight, a nest in a hanging basket. If you have one and would like it used, write to help@animalinstitute.org.