on her 13 acres and see how she rehabilitates cox eagles i was and. barbara has the best success rate in the country with the raptors and the reason she has such success she feeds biologically appropriate all. living mice rabbits rodents to those animals to be able to help the body recover from injury. so when i went to veterinarian school years later and i sat to these nutrition courses and when they gave me the laminated chart that told me what food i should feed with what disease process things did not add up. before i went to vet school i worked for years in zoo medicine. the most important thing i think i learned from that is every species has its own requirement to teach species must eat what it is supposed to eat it's developed evolved to have a specific diet that keeps it healthy. each animal has its own biologic requirement for certain nutrients a species appropriate diet for worms is dirt and a species appropriate diet let's say for hummingbirds would be nectar if you can't feed earthworms nectar and you can feed hummingbirds sturt both of t