Post #14516

Wild animals should not be handled, otherwise they will die from stress. What is possible? Reminder for the warm season Because of this, they can die: do not handle wild animals - your help can only make things worse. Spring is coming, the hiking season will begin and “Oh, look how cute the fawn is in the grass! He probably lost his mother, we need to help him!” Spoiler - don't. Without your intervention, he has a pretty good chance of survival, but after you take the animal in your hands, these chances can sharply decrease. Did you know that animals can die simply from stress after contact with humans? And this is not a comment byte, but a really documented phenomenon called stress-induced myopathy. Animals do not understand our good intentions; for them, any person is a priori considered a threat to life. Therefore, contacts with bipeds very often cause severe stress. When an animal, be it a wounded/sick adult or simply a “lost” cub, falls into the hands of a person, their body turns on the emergency mode. And the longer a wild animal is near a person, the more irreversible the consequences can be. During times of danger, the body of animals and people produces a whole cocktail of stress hormones. Adrenaline, norepinephrine, cortisol and other substances necessary for survival: they speed up metabolism, sharpen reactions and put muscles on alert so that you can escape or fight back. But alas, all this is not free. Working at the limit of your capabilities greatly exhausts the body, and any body has its own margin of safety. Over time, muscles overheated by adrenaline begin to tire, break down and release waste products and lactic acid. All this enters the blood in such large quantities that the body, exhausted by stress, simply cannot utilize everything correctly. Due to the accumulation of harmful substances, they cause irreversible damage to the kidneys and heart, resulting in death. Depending on the animal’s resistance to stress, from the moment of capture to death it can take from several hours to a couple of days, but the result is often the same. If suddenly a wild animal turns out to be super stress-resistant and all of the above does not happen to it, the risks of dying after contact with a person are still quite high. Firstly, because of the crookedness of the rescuer. People who are far from nature don’t even understand which side is better to take a wild animal, but imagine that it starts biting and struggling! Anyone who has ever bathed a cat will understand what we are talking about here. And a person can easily be injured, and the animal can receive additional damage. It is our human children who can get lost even in a shopping center, but wild ones usually don’t get lost: as a rule, the parents of unfortunate fawns, wild kittens, puppies and fledglings are somewhere nearby and watch in horror as two-legged creatures try to save their child. And if the “rescuers” make some noise, then adults may well switch into