Juvenile flying-fox in care: this is Pelican on day 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- 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).
tolgabathospital.org/donate/
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
She's so adorable. Tough lil' gal. Certainly bright eyed and alert. ❤
"And some poo, excellent!". You are the BEST Meg!! So much love for your rescued Bats.🦇🤗🥰
They do well under your Care thank you for taking care of them !
Looking at the condition of the wrap I'd say her digestion works excellently 😎👍🏼 Her eyes are bright and she's active 😁 looks good for little Pelican ❤️🥰🙏🏼 A little more beefing up under your gentle care and she's off soaring the skies again 🥰❤️🙏🏼
So glad to see Pelican feeling better. Hope she can go back into the wild later on.❤❤❤
Thank so so much for your work helping these beautiful bat's. Your voice is so soft and caring. The compassion you show is admired. Thank you for the continuing story of Pelican. Please keep us informed on how she's doing. Blessings to you.
You get all the footage I take when she is in my care, and anything I can extract from the carer (I can't get any footage from this carer though), and any follow-up I can manage if I'm in teh aviary and can identify the bat and get footage.
You get it all.
Yes indeed Meg, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE a Survivor with feist and Battitude!👍 You gave her awesome care and so much love. YAY Pelican!!🩶🦇🤗💕💕
Such a cute one, with those eyes. And you just have to love that tongue.
Isn’t she just beautiful!!🥰❤️🦇🇨🇦
Looking forward to seeing Pelican healed and with other batties, waiting on release! She's gonna make it!
Definitely a survivor, yay!
Hooray for Pelican! And for Meg … this episode reminds me that you must put a lot of time and effort into keeping up with batty laundry of various kinds!
My grandmother used to have Monday is Washing day; it was day all the women and children carried all the washing up the creek where the men had installed a copper (big metal copper cauldron) with a fireplace below it. It was on the banks of the creek; they had to fill the copper with water collect from the creek with buckets, and collect firewood to boil the water; the kids all had to work too, collecting the wood and filling the buckets.
The women scrubbed the whites with a washboard and yellow soap. There was a line strung between trees with props; the pegs were hand whittled dolly pegs; some clothing was thrown over bushes to dry and some was hung. All the whites were boiled and then fished out with a stick, where they had to be wrung out; since they'd been in boiling water, wringing them out was a bit ouchy.
The whites all had to be starched later then ironed with a flat iron heated on the stove or over the fire later that night.
They took a picnic up the creek, and it was an entire day's labour for the woman.
I just chuck in the washing machine with some powder, and come back when it's done. I don't iron anything. I hang out to dry; I don't use a dryer.
I have it easy.
😸 que bom! Ela vai voar! TKS Meg 💚 🦇
What a little beauty, thank you Meg 🍁 🦇🇨🇦
I get a tad bitty too when someone messes with my sore spots
May I? Thank you.
Respect from an old nurse.
Absolutely love the robe on a hangar for a bat comfort zone
I know I keep saying it, Meg, but you wonderful! Pelican seems to realise you're just trying to help good luck xxx
She is giving me a limited degree of trust because she has nobody else to rely on and can't see how to escape from where she is at the moment; she also doesn't feel well and is biding her time until she feels better so she can escape when the opportunity presents
@@Megabattie I get you. She has a cunning plan
It amazes me me how much they can drink love your show
She is such a little beauty, and she is definitely watching everything. She is one of the fastest juice gobblers I’ve seen in your care. Is the nail matrix still attached to her thumb? If it is she just might regrow the claw with time, but they both look pretty sore. She hangs really nicely for a girl who has blunted her claws, but you can see her looking if making a break for it will get her anywhere. I love her character, glad to see she isn’t going flat and squidgy.🥂🖤🇨🇦
yup. Pelican is a survivor. ^^
For not being a vet you seem to have knowledge about these foxes they so need. I have never been so close to your family foxes nor understood them. I am grateful to you for taking such care of these beautiful animals. I live far away but if I could I would love to visit your little hospital. Thank you for inviting us on a trip that shows us how animals can be misunderstood. Bless you 🙏
Thanks
Pink dressing gown healing tent 💖💕
Casing out the joint? ESCAPE!? No! No no no, why would you ever... Of course she's not trying to escape!
I love seeing her so attentive, and the head bobs as she's (definitely not) planning her escape. I'm guessing the thumb claw doesn't grow back? How do they cope in the wild, just get used to 3-point-at-most hanging?
She's definitely checking out the lie of the land; if she could see her way to flapping away, out my door and off my balcony, she definitely would have made an escape attempt.
They only hang one or 2 point in the wild when they're relaxed; hanging by their toes. They're hooked and they'll work just fine.
She can manage without one thumb completely but she'll have all but the claw on the tip, so she'll be able to use her thumb nub to hook over branch for inverting to do her business.
She still tries to grab with that thumb and looks surprised that it both hurts and won't hook onto anything.
SHe'll learn even if the claw doesn't regrow she'll be just fine, and has the benefit of being young which means she'll adapt faster.
@@Megabattie I'm sure she would love the opportunity lol (and I hope the sarcasm in my first comment isn't lost in the text). Hopefully she gets at least a bit of claw back, or if not, at least adapts and heals quickly. That's cool they could still manage without a thumb, I feel like I remember one video in an aviary with a bat that had lost their thumb but never saw followup on whether they were released, it had me curious with Pelican's eventual release looking so promising.
Good eater
That remainder of the claw may allow regrowth.
Regarding previous comment about severed finger tips regrowing , if part of the lunula (the base of the nail) remains then the finger tip may regrow.
The keratin may regrow but there has to be some bone underneath to grow onto, and the bone has to be alive. I think she's lost quite a bit of the claw bone, and what I can see doesn't look raw and bloody and alive.
It's a wait and see game, and tomorrow you have the inestimable joy of watching me try to get a dressing onto that thumb without her cooperation, with no help.
I found it very entertaining retrospectively though after 15 minutes it was getting a little wearing.
I always thought of them as flying rats😮 They have a very gentle sweet side I've never seen before. Thank-you for caring for them.
They're definitely not rodents and have a very important role in the health of our rainforests; they're the sole pollinators for some of the night-flowering hardwoods.
I didn't really think about them before I accidentally fell into rescuing and caring for them; I joined wildlife rescue to care for parrots and parrot chicks in the season but accidentally ended up rescuing bats exclusively.
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Way to go lil pelican, ❤❤🦇🦇
Heilà Megabattie 🤗👋
Glad to know she is doing better🥰🦇😍 Thank you, for all the daily care, you give her and all the others💝💖💝
Oh sweet Pelican keep getting better more and more everyday. She is beautiful! She has such a long tongue I love watching them drink juice. Yay I hope she can be moved to hang out with the other bats she’s a beauty and survivor!! 🦇💕🦇💕🦇💕🦇💕
Pelican! You are doing so well! The yogurt is on regular menu with the juice, and Meg is planning the next recovery destination for you. Hope the cream helps, I use an NSAID gel for my arthritic thumbs with very comfortable results. Sample the tasting buffet before you travel. It keeps getting better☺
Pelican looks a lot better each day. Is Adrian going to tidy up her thumb with his magic?
Yay for another survivor, thanks to your TLC, Meg. 💙
(If only that pink robe could talk, imagine the stories it has.)
😂😂😂 RE: The pink robe.
Tidying up the thumb won't happen for a few weeks - we see what will heal by itself and if the claw will grow back over the underlying claw bone (thumb tip).
If it needs tidying up we need it to happen before Adrian goes away in June sometime.
Glad that Pelican feeling bester. What did you feeding her? ❤❤❤❤❤
Apple juice, yoghurt and tried her on grapes.
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Too bad they can't get thumb claw replacements but they seem to do okay missing one.
She might regrow some of the nail on her claw.
@Megabattie
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Well... drinker at least!
Какой красавчик)))❤❤❤❤
А мажете ему цепляшки зачем? У него там болит?
Я мажу кремом ее большие пальцы, потому что они опухли и болят, и этот крем уменьшает отек и боль.
I'm curious why you wrap her to a stuffed animal during the night?
I want her to sleep and not try to escape, and I want her to feel secure like her mum was wrapping her and loving her.
I put all the new-in-care batties onto rolls or teddies to keep them lying down and resting.
"I can feel it crawling around" I don't like this, not at all...
Im getting Pelican confused with Mrs Batzilla's Maisy. They are both underweight little ladies.
LOL Megabattie usually names batties with unusual names; my very good friend Batzilla the Bat likes to give them dainty little names with Miss or Master as the title before the names.
@@Megabattie ,
I tried to watch her channel years ago, but I couldn’t bear all the trolls she got. I enjoyed your videos when you visited her. Anyone who loves frogs is a potential friend.
She gets a lot of trolls because she doesn't interact with them or police them or delete them.
It's a lot of work to admin a channel; I've worked hard to get rid of the trolls and build my relationship with my viewers.
Because I police my comments and have good filters, most of the toxicity gets caught in the filters for my review and I just delete them.
Why the Hell would people troll an animal rescue site? People are idiots.
@@marisaera2353 ,
Fear of bats, and uneducated idiots. I haven’s been to her channel for a long time. I prefer Meg’s channel. I don’t see trolls here, and we’re a community, of sorts.