NATURAL SCIENCE: bats

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My Guest is Kate Rugroden

Kate is a TPWD permitted wildlife rehabilitator specializing in bats, opossums, and raccoons, and holds both TPWD and USDA Educational Display permits as well. She has over 30 years’ experience in presenting live animal programs in addition to her 15 years as a rehabilitator. She is a member of IWRC, NWRA, the Texas Animal Shelter Coalition, Texas Animal Control Association, and serves as Chair of the Stakeholders Committee for the National White Nose Syndrome Response Team.

Kate serves as VP of Operations for Bat World Sanctuary. In that role, she has presented educational programs to thousands of adults and school children throughout the DFW Metroplex. 

Kate has developed training manuals for and teaches several wildlife rehabilitation classes, leads the 2-day bat rehabilitation workshops for Bat World, and, with Amanda Lollar of Bat World Sanctuary, co-authored the book The Essential Bat (Bat World Sanctuary, 2012). Additionally, she has developed material for a remote, instructor-led half-day bat rehabilitation workshop and a half-day bat training workshop for Animal Control officers in Texas and California. She is approved by the Texas Department of State Health Services and American Association of Veterinary State Boards as an instructor for continuing education hours, and is certified as an instructor for the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.

KATE WILL PUT YOU ON THE SPOT WITH THIS QUESTION: you have just met an individual who had never heard of bats and never seen one, what one word would you use to describe it?

https://batworld.org/

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