What do you think would be the most interesting wildlife topic? PLEASE help? 10

[ImGuineaPigst]

points? I have to do a speech in my English class about how to do something, besides making a recipe. I work at a nature center and I love animals, so I thought it would be cool to describe how to do something from what I do at my work. Since nobody really knows that I do a lot of work with animals, I kind of want to show off a bit (in a non-conceited way

Anyways, here are some jobs I usually do. Which would interest you most to learn how to do? You can pick a few if you want:
-Morning care for ducks and chickens
-Cleaning up after predatory birds, corvids, and songbirds (Birds)
-Cleaning up after mammals, like coyotes, grey foxes, possums, and skunks (Mammals)
-How to give a raven medicine with a dead mouse
-Feeding and cleaning a gopher
-How to safely handle a possum
-How to be clean and sanitary (and handling) while cleaning a breeding colony of rodents (these are like the rodents they need to use for the predatory birds and carnivorous mammals)
-How to feed a baby bird
How would feeding a gopher or taking care of chickens be disturbing? And also cleaning up after animals...how is that disturbing...?
We almost in highschool, I think they can all handle it...
Yeah, I like the last answer. I would like to tell them the daily thing that I do, but it has to be a specific task

 

[makayla]

i think the most interest will come to the baby bird one because the other ones would be kind of disturbing to explain and display in class hope this helped

 

[nekospiritfire]

Giving the raven medicine with a dead mouse would probably be a little too quick (though interesting for a second) If you did that, I'm sure there would be a story in your conditioning to work. I recall being grossed out by a new thing almost every day for awhile, the last thing each time becoming more and more normal. So the process of cutting a mouse and shoving a pill in its gut going from crazy to perfectly day to day is fun.

Safely handling an opossum kind of has the same problem, however your first handling training experiences will likely have some interesting stories to go along with them. [We just had a 'crunchy' opossum, ruptured trachea filled his skin with air, made it feel a beanbag]

If you've got any "how I learned to be sanitary"/"when this disease spread to me/other animals" sort of story, than those would be a good lesson, and you still get to talk about the animals you work with.

Umm... You guys get any good parasites? I remember trich(omoniasis) was a good one if you want to talk about birds, Shedding Baylisascaris if you've got raccoons (since it eats your brain) is also ... special. In general diseases are a good topic.

Maybe you should just do a speech on what your average day is, all the way through in no great detail, it will seem bizarre to many people, day to day life at a rehab is nothing like normal.