Wildlife Capture Techniques: Anesthesia and Tagging

This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of wildlife capture techniques including different methods of trapping and chemically immobilizing wild animals. Attendees will learn from a combination of lecture and hands-on activities covering drug selection and pharmacology, anesthetic monitoring, and how to safely set up and check traps for terrestrial, aquatic, and flighted animals of all sizes. Attendees will gain practical skills in dart-gun use, rocket netting, and more, and will learn the advantages and disadvantages of different capture methods. This experience is targeted towards veterinary students, graduate students, and early career professionals, but more advanced content can also be presented by our expert workshop leaders, who have over 50 years of combined experience in this field. 

Transport to and from the workshop location and a mid-morning coffee break with light refreshments will be provided.

Sathya Chinnadurai is the Senior Vice President of Animal Health, Welfare & Science at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. He is a veterinarian and is triple-boarded in Zoological Medicine, Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia, and Animal Welfare, and is an expert in animal sedation and immobilization in both zoological and free-ranging settings.

Chris Anchor is a Senior Wildlife Biologist for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. He is a veteran biologist since 1981, known for leading hands-on research, educating students, and managing urban wildlife in the Chicago area to understand human-wildlife coexistence.

REGISTRATION: $150

CONTACT: wda2026@wildlifedisease.org