Pelican is a very small looking juvenile Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who ended up hanging low in a hedge in a small suburban front yard.
She looks like she's about 16 weeks old, but her forearm says that she's around 6 months old while her weight says she's about 100g underweight. She has a small cute face, a lot of battitude, and the language of a salty sailor with the self-confidence to back it up.
In care she's not quite sure what she's meant to do, and if she should maintain her cranky at me, or just let me help her. She's still shocked, but the analgesia, glucose, fluids and rest are helping to reduce her anxiety and adrenaline. She vacillates between being accepting and calm, and a little snippy at me.
I'm starting to get a better feel for her injury from seeing how she moves, and the chances for her recovery and survival, and in return, she's starting to afford me a limited degree of trust, though I don't trust her when she head bobs whilst hanging and lifts her head as if she's about to take off.
It looks like it's time for her to go to to hang out with the other batties if she's OK in the morning and hanging well.
She continues to be little Miss Bright Eyes, using them to good effect to try to fool me into thinking she's not casing out the joint with the view to escape if I ever turn my back on her...
Gotta love a survivor with feist and battitude.
Tolga Bat Hospital takes donations for our batties. Tolga is an awesome place in Far North Queensland, which has charity status. By sending donations to them, they get a percentage (and deserve every cent) and they can allocate money to me for batty expenses without it becoming part of my income stream (which makes tax time difficult).
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Mention Megabattie or Meg in the PayPal message box and the money will find its way to me.
If no message box appears, please email Jenny to tell her that the money is for me.
IMPORTANT: If you pay through the PayPal Giving Fund, can you please email Jenny with the AMOUNT DONATED and the name under which you have donated, OR just forward along the PP receipt.
The Giving Fund doesn’t charge any fees (so the bats get more money) but PP doesn’t itemise out the amount, they just send a total every month, and we don’t know if the money is for Tolga or for Megabattie.
Here’s Jenny’s email.
jenny@tolgabathospital.org
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