Please help us welcome our most recent addition to the Red Wolf Recovery Program, Kate! She is the red wolf caretaker intern from September
through December 2013.
Kate grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and continues to
reside there with her family when she’s not working remotely. Some of her
favorite things to do are reading, horseback riding, hiking, and watching
British television. She also love music and played clarinet in the marching
band for six years. Kate graduated in 2012 from UNC-Chapel Hill with a B.Sc. degree in
Biology. Since then, she has worked in different internship programs to
gain experience and figure out what she wants to do next professionally. Her
goal is to be involved in animal care and research of terrestrial carnivores
such as wolves and big cats. Her main research interest is studying social
communication within groups of animals. Kate has a wide range of research
experience with various species, including sea turtles in North Carolina and
Florida, and sulfur butterflies in the Colorado Rockies. She also studied
abroad in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands two years ago and got to put her
scuba certification to good use. Within North Carolina, she also spent a
summer working at the NC Museum of
Natural Sciences, and had the opportunity to overcome an intense fear of
snakes. By the end, she was a convert and was handling the snakes regularly
at the museum; however, she still maintains a healthy distance from them in the
wild.
We’re lucky to have Kate as she enjoys the challenges of new
experiences and is an incredibly dedicated worker. She also knows her way
around the refuge already, she was a General Refuge intern at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
this past summer and explored and gained useful knowledge about the native
wildlife. She looks forward to
learning more about red wolves, gaining additional animal care experience, and
assisting with the efforts of the Red
Wolf Recovery Program.
Welcome Kate!
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