Rescuing a flying-fox in a courtyard: this is Jade
Jade is an adult female Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who crash landed in a courtyard. Courtyards are traps for bats. There isn't enough room for them to get height to fly out. Usually they've hit their heads against the wall when they crash land, sometimes they repeatedly attempt to get out of the courtyard and smack into the wall over and over, especially if they think they can almost make it.
Jade tried repeatedly to get out of the courtyard. She was trying to get back to her baby. She had milk in her nipples which means she's left a baby back in the colony.
She was very stressed, and as you can see, she was quite cranky and unimpressed with the whole situation, including everything about me.
She settled down once her adrenaline wore off, and accepted care. She is eating and hanging comfortably 36 hours later.
If she's OK in a day or 2 she might be able to be hard released.
The only real obstacle to this at the moment (apart from her being OK and fit for release) is that the weather is really horrible at the moment and it's so hot and is getting hotter, that if we let her go she may die in the heat. It is preferable to keep the bats in care during the coming extreme heat event rather than let them go to maybe die.
The upshot of this is that they will be in care for maybe 2 more months, depending on how many we have to cycle through the release aviary. They will eat $120AUD worth of fruit per month for the next 2 months. We'd prefer to let them go but sometimes keeping them is the sensible option.
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Jade tried repeatedly to get out of the courtyard. She was trying to get back to her baby. She had milk in her nipples which means she's left a baby back in the colony.
She was very stressed, and as you can see, she was quite cranky and unimpressed with the whole situation, including everything about me.
She settled down once her adrenaline wore off, and accepted care. She is eating and hanging comfortably 36 hours later.
If she's OK in a day or 2 she might be able to be hard released.
The only real obstacle to this at the moment (apart from her being OK and fit for release) is that the weather is really horrible at the moment and it's so hot and is getting hotter, that if we let her go she may die in the heat. It is preferable to keep the bats in care during the coming extreme heat event rather than let them go to maybe die.
The upshot of this is that they will be in care for maybe 2 more months, depending on how many we have to cycle through the release aviary. They will eat $120AUD worth of fruit per month for the next 2 months. We'd prefer to let them go but sometimes keeping them is the sensible option.
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