Software for wildlife research is often developed in isolation and rarely evolves beyond a single project. Compounding this problem is a lack of software development skills in the wildlife research community. Wild Incubator is an on-site, staffed software incubator in Portland, Oregon. The incubator allows code school graduates and undergraduate computer science students to hone their skills on directed, open source wildlife software problems (e.g., develop a new feature for Wildbook to help whale shark researchers). Students work in an environment where professional engineers can guide their experience and focus their efforts on real world problems.