The Tube Nosed Bats (Nyctimene robinsoni) usually come into care after being caught on barbed wire outside Guava Orchards; they often go unnoticed because they look like a dead leaf in dappled sunshine, because of their brown colouring and individual speckling of yellow dots.
These 3 batties were barbed wire victims; Gypsy Jill has been in care for 3 years but Bee and Thai are relatively recent arrivals.
Enjoy Hannah feeding the little ones and chatting about their little quirks.
Thai is impatient for her juice and supplement as soon as she is caught; she guzzles it then when she's full she won't be coaxed into some more fluid and has to be released FORTHWITH; she's such an impatient girl.
Bee is not quite as enthusiastic, nor as impatient and is more difficult to get fluids into.
And calm Gypsy was busy eating her apple, the only tubie who eats fruit during the day.
Tube Nosed Bats are megabats; they don't echolocate and navigate by sight. They weigh around 50-60 grams as adults.
They have very good directional smell sense because their nostrils are extended and can sense the direction from which the odour is stronger.
Tube Nosed Bats don't normally drink in the wild, getting their fluids from their fruit, so they can't lap and they don't stick their tongues out.
In care, they need to have various supplements which are given in their juice drinks.
Tolga Bat Hospital is an awesome place and a forever home for many batties unable to be released back to the wild. It's run by Jenny and Hannah and Ashleigh, in a very sensible and frugal manner. All the donations go to the bats and running the hospital.
Visit their website and donate if you feel the urge.
tolgabathospital.org
tolgabathospital.org/donate/
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