World Wild Vet

May 1, 2020

Antin, host of Animal Planet's Evan Goes Wild and an exotic animal veterinarian associated with Conejo Valley Veterinary Hospital, CA, recalls wildlife meet-ups both funny and scary while asking us to recognize how delicate the environment really is. With a 100,000-copy first printing.

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September 1, 2020
To paraphrase Antin in the introduction to this fun book, this is the story of how a guy from Kansas was able to go all over the world to help animals. With the full-speed-ahead enthusiasm familiar to viewers of his Evan Goes Wild Instagram feed and Animal Planet show, Antin tells stories of his international travels and of how these experiences transformed him into the exotic animal veterinarian and conservationist that he is today. Beginning with his first trips to Australia and Tanzania, where he swam with whale sharks and learned not to get between a hippo and the water, he also chronicles working in Central America, Southeast Asia, and many other regions. Charming his way into helping with wildlife any way he can, he sedated giraffes for relocation, released baby sea turtles in Costa Rica, assisted with surgery on a stray dog in Tahiti, and taught rangers in Komodo how to safely remove venomous snakes instead of killing them. Even offering a nice, up-to-date bibliography, "America's Sexiest Vet" mixes animal conservation with a lust for adventure.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)