Flying-Fox goes to the aviary after her xray: this is Portia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ค. 2024
- Portia is a subadult female Grey-Headed Flying-Fox was rescued after the family dog noticed her hanging above the garage door inside the garage. I don't know how she got trapped in there but she found her way there and needed rescue.
Of course she did the obligatory pee on me as I rescued her, screaming and swearing at me, but once I got her home she was very quiet; I can never tell if quiet is fatigue and running out of adrenaline, or head injury, or fear.
In her case I think there was an element of fear involved with maybe a mild head smack. She became very passive and hunched and non-interactive. I took her to Adrian for an xray, which showed no fractures so I thought sending her to the aviary to see how she was hanging would be a good idea. I left her there enduring the obligatory sniff-fest meet-and-greet, hunched and unhappy and not even climbing to the top of the aviary cage.
The carer checked her in half an hour and said she was hanging on the top of the cage and much more relaxed. She didn't look back and is up for a hard release this week if she remains fine and the weather is suitable.
YAY, I love survivors and hard releases.
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
All those eyes staring at Meg, what a group.
They do love to cluster in the corners.❣️❣️❣️
Yay for Portia! Happy to hear she's on her way to freedom soon! ☮️💜🦇
Invasion of personal spaces!!🤣🥰❤️🦇🇨🇦
It’s amazing how still and quiet bats can be!!😊
God bless her. ❤
What a cute little cluster of eyeballs looking back at you. Poor Portia she looks terrified.
Poor thing looks terrified
Yes, she does; I wasn't sure if she was fit for hanging, but when the carer went back an hour later they were all hanging off the top of the cage and she couldn't see any bat hanging awkwardly, so basically she was just terrified and anxious but ready to hang.
@@Megabattie I suspect the other bats told her to pull herself together , the monsters were just humans and some were quite friendly
@@PaulG.x😂😂 👍🏼
I thought all the bats would be sleeping during the day.🤔🤔💭
Love , love , love photobomb sniffies!❤❤❤ 😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️
Come on Portia, you will be back home soon
Oh my gosh they are so so cute.
That last closeup shot of Foveaux 🩶🦇🤗💓 with added sniffies melted my heart!❣️
Portia looked so afraid still in the aviary. It’s good to read the description that she seemed to get more acclimated. Foveaux‼️ she reached out for you with her wing & pulled your arm closer to her! And the sniffies at you & the camera were precious! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Beautiful, wonderful creatures! Many thumbs up!
Just love the class photo!❤
My favorite part of the meet and greets are how petrified the new bat looks. I mean, in her place I would be too, lol.
And again, love the inverted meerkat jury
They all look so content. ❤❤❤
Waiting for the ads to finish running…
Addit: Foveaux (spelling?) remembers you, Meg. I love her photobombs, too.
I hope Portia settles in with the other batties, and that you film the hard releases. Thank you for filming this. The corner full of judging upside down meerkats is cute, but not intimidating. 💙
I always film the releases - it's the best part.
Aw i hope she settles in ok. I love hor furfaux comes to say hello. All those bats just looking at you. Bless them, thank you to everyone taking care of them all ❤❤❤❤
They're cute, but definitely a judgey bunch!
Little Portia and wonderful Meg ❤
As the new kid in school after my family relocated a thousand miles, I was probably hunched, too. At least the kids didn't go about with the touching stuff, but there were those same group stares. Will we get to see Portia's hard release? Thank you for caring for her!
I always do vid of hard releases; I adore doing hard releases.
Who's that weird new kid? Eh, we'll learn to like them.
@@Megabattie Yay!
Hope you video the hard release. Love those.
If I hard release, I video it.
I hard released and there is a video of it. Maybe I'll put it up tomorrow.
Poor thing, she looked so uncertain at first! Wonderful to hear that she just needed some time to adjust and that being around other bats helped her relax and settle in. 🥰
Too cute
Spat lots of seeds and make lots of healthy babies, Ms. Portia!
Portia is still so hunched in this video but sounds like it is improving with time.👍💕🦇
Yes, still hunched, but it's anxiety not physical.
Within half an hour she was hanging with the others and indistinguishable from the crowd unless you looked for her mauve collar.
What a scrum in the corner, like kids who don't want to be picked for a question by the teacher.
😂😂😂
I like the huddle and stare.
Huge applause for Miss Portia! On your way, girl! The crowd in the corner reminds me of the opening scene in the movie Labyrinth, all the little creatures in the back of the closet.
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it was so great to see her become so relaxed later on, to the point of feeling curious with her little sniffies at the camera. really glad to hear about another survivor and soon a release!
Foveaux will go out as a soft release through the release aviary under the colony; I won't see her go.
@@Megabattie ah thats ashame you wont be there to see it, but it's still good to see these victories for the bats!
Well, that was a rather intimate welcome, a bit beyond the normal sniffies. Glad to hear Portia has found her stride, and is up for a hard release. I DO like this little lady. Very good jury, I think their minds were already made up, and there seems to be a Poppy in every group. I love that she is a survivor on the fast track.🥂🖤🇨🇦
I don't think she likes her pretty purple necklace
I so so so I had a bat house with little bats playing around it and making it their home. I live in central Midwest USA.
You don't have bats like these in the USA mainland.
And you keep your spider webs like me.
Oh bless Portia's heart!🥺🩶🦇💕💕 You hang in there sweetheart (no pun intended!). You're a Survivor & we all want you to be hard released.💕 The judgement stares always make me smile, bless them ALL!😳🦇💕💕🥰
That bat that approached you so oinfidently and curiously sniffed and photo-bombed - is that the bat that was so hunched and terrified and just trusted you to do whatever you thought best?
No that was another bat, probably Foveaux; she was one who was scared a few weeks ago and was so stiff, even under the anaesthetic for the xray.
🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇 woow! 😽😽
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Hey, Meg, at 4:00, who is that with the unusual facial markings? Is it speccie genes, or just someone unique?
Thanks for sharing Portia's arrival, complete with some verrry familiar attentions from that handsome young feller. Glad she's more relaxed with the new gang.
she's just a blonde faced batty which makes her look unusual. I don't know; she's not one of my rescues and the carer doesn't name them; I don't know the stories of the other bats in the aviary unless they came from me.
@@Megabattie thank you for naming the ones you rescue and for telling us their story I love them!!
@@dazylulu1832 It's how I remember them as individuals instead of random batty with toe injury or random batty off barbed wire.
@@Megabattie And most importantly, it's how viewers learn to attach the stories to an individual, a 'person,' which may change their attitudes toward bats and other wild residents of their neighborhoods.
@@Megabattie Oh, thanks, Meg. She looks like someone who fell asleep with their makeup on.
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How in the world do you tell them apart?
Portia has a mauve collar on; they're all microchipped, and they're different sizes, sexes colouring and some are more interactive than others. Some like to hang out in certain places; some like to hang out with certain other bats.
They're all different.
Just a thrill, look at this stream of positivity and inspiration!🌀