My dear friend Meg, so heart-rending and tearful. But you gave them great care so they were safe and warm. Heartbreaking but at least they knew care before they passed.
Realistically I didn't expect Lizzie to survive, however I was hopeful for Buck, until I took him off his mum and he wasn't particularly active or grabby or crying for his mum.
Made me so sad. Can’t imagine how it affects you, yet you never give up. I’m sure it’s discouraging to say the least. Bless you for trying & they weren’t abandoned to die alone.
So sad! I was so hopefull - seeing the energy, but nope. .. Meg - Thank you for continuing on. You and the others are true heros. RIP Lizzie and Buck...
I didn't think Lizzie had a hope of survival but I didn't realise Buck was so bad until I took him off his mum and he was very quiet and not active or grabby
I am deeply sorry about Mumbat Lizzie and her little man Bat Buck!😭🩶🦇🦇💔 There's never a doubt in my mind, that you do everything possible for the Bats you Rescue and care for. I am so very sorry Meg!😓💕💕
Rest in peace Lizzie and baby Buck, it was just your time to go. If there is a battie afterlife, I hope you join the great chiroptera throng in perfect bliss and happiness.
I had hopes from the title that it was just a matter of them being physically trapped, but then I read the description. I agree, the effects of adrenaline are incredible, she was so close to the end but fighting with every fibre of her being. RIP Lizzie and Buck 💔
Yes, she was dead within an hour of rescue; I can't fix things where the fate is already determined by the amount of damage done; I had hopes that Buck would be OK, but he was wrong from the second I took him off his mum,.
❤❤They're together again in the afterlife {at least their energies are since 'life force' is an energy that can never die.} Fly on you beautiful lovelies ~🌠🦇🦇💜✨️
It’s so difficult for me to watch you lose any bats. I can’t imagine how hard it must be for you. It sounded like mum and baby might have been in the courtyard for a few days or more. Thank you for trying to save the bats. God bless 🙏
It's how it is at the moment, but every rescue I go on I go with the assumption that the bat will survive; it's not happening like that now but eventually the stats will change and the bats will be mostly survivors again.
Meg, I am quite moved by your attention to help Lizzie and Buck. I feel for these animals since mankind is so driven for its own dominant survival. The years of experience that you give for earth's creatures I can almost cry for all of nature. Educating the public and keeping an I out for these guys is paramount! Thank you ❤
Bravooooo, gracias por tu Humanidad, hay que ayudar y rescatar la mayor cantidad de especies. Ya hemos acabado con hábitat y tanto Ser Vivo y Sintiente que estos ejemplos dan esperanza ❤
I don't think anyone would call Meg sweet if they actually knew me; I can be kind and caring, however I'm also acerbic, blunt and straightforward which doesn't equate to sweet. And I don't always observe social niceties; I assume the person knows I mean well, but I don't say please and thank you all the time (it gets in the way in rescue situations), and I don't pander to vets, but treat them as equals, so sometimes I offend them because I don't worship them enough (I just think of them as people with the same interest in the animal and a different or expanded skillset from mine). I find the vets I work with are refreshingly human and who take me at face value, for who I am; it works for us and I consider 3 of the vets my very good and personal friends. (I doubt they'd call me sweet either).
😢 You did everything you could. Nevertheless, I always feel sad if something like this happens and we're unable to help. Thank you for being there and guiding them. 🙏💜
rip poor little loves, youre not having loads of luck with your batties lately are you, still im sure the fact that youre doing what youre doing is helping, youre a lovely person, and hopefully you will find a survivor soon, im afraid it upsets me so much that i read whats happend first, cos i cry when they pass , i think youre a strong lady, much more than me x BLESS YOU X
Poor lil ones. I wonder if she gave up knowing if her pup was gonna make it, itd be in your hands. Those eye movement and shaking, yeah, IC pressure's screwy w/vestibular damage or shes ingested a bad toxin. My guess, smack in to the wall, topple down into cement, baby injured in fall onto cement. Just from the weird layout of that building. I could see her sailing in, hard smack, topple down, hit baby. But those spasms may also be poison ingestion affecting the nervous system. Which could also affect the baby in the milk. Without a scan and bloodtest impossible to tell. Do you ever get necropsy on cases like this?
I don't think there are toxins in the environment that they pickup, and if they did there would be many more coming in iwi the same symptoms. Baby Buck was squidgy from the start though - not particularly active or vocal; I wonder how long they had been there; I don't think the guy had properly moved in or was actually living there
I've seen enough of these to know what the jerking movement and lack of octo-pup mean, and even knowing, it hurts to watch them go. I can't imagine what it's like for you, with so many rescues having the same outcome, but I keep watching because in spite of that you still give them every possible chance. I know, you have to, but it takes strength to carry on with so much death. I'm sorry it's not getting much better, but it will. Hang in there, Meg. RIP, Lizzie and little Buck.
I'm hanging in there but the occasional survivor is the only thing keeping me going. I can see they're not going to make it - but I thought Buck would, until he wasn't grabby and wasn't interested in a feed.
She's so feisty, even when she's a addled as she is from that hit. I don't think I've seen the chronic spasms before; they look like it makes it trickier to discern whether she's aiming to get you or just glitching. Luckily it looks like the Megabattie's honed reflexes are too quick to fall for her unintentionally feints. Does getting thumb-boxed hurt, or is it more of a startling sensation of contact, like getting slapped by a cat?
Meg, you definitely did what you could, and having you with them at the end, I'm thinking, helped them some. They definitely hung on until the end, especially mom. As she was worried about her boy, and once you were there, she could let go, as they both moved on.😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So sorry for yet another death, actually two. I admire you for how you persevere in spite of the sad outcomes. I have learned to read the descriptions, so I knew this wasn’t a happy ending, but I still got a smile when Buck showed off his big battie feetsies. 8:57
Is it just the stress of being trapped that causes these deaths? I know you cannot know how long they hve been trapped but the bats do not seem very resilient.
Most likely her attempts to fly out from that potted plant (the only thing she could climb) resulted in multiple concussions from impacts with the walls
I don't know why she ended up on the ground to begin with; I know that flying low in an area with multiple roof levels leads to entrapment; I don't know how much she struggled to get out, or how long she was in the courtyard; trying to escape multiple times though leads to concussion. There is often a stress myopathy involved as well, and lack of fluids and continual struggles to get out lead to the myopathy which affects heart and kidneys. THere is some speculation that bats, if captured (like by a raptor or a snake) die really quickly so they don't need a mechanism to help them survive capture myopathy because they're dead before they even get the myopathy.
thank you so much for the input-makes a lot of sense that they might be fragile, in a way, by design. Better not to suffer if you are a small critter. Thank you for the effort to save all the lovely batties.
Mrs Meggabattie you are such a Wonderfull woman I watch your videos from the Uk and I look forward to seeing what miracles and magic you do to help these gorgeous Bats, Thank goodness they have you to help them, do you train anyone up to take over should say you become I’ll yourself sorry such a morbid question but I do worry for the Bats if they don’t have you 🙏❤️❤️❤️
I'm not training anyone; there's nobody who wants to do this like I do; if someone turns up I'll teach them, but basically for the younger people, it's too hard and they just want to dabble in rescue not actually commit to it.
@@Megabattie That’s sad can’t believe that nobody would love to learn what you do saddens my heart they are Beautifull animals Flying foxes dogs with wings You are wonderfull at what you do and so very committed 🙏❤️❤️❤️
Being a bat rescuer isn't about dabbling and doing the occasional rescue; it requires time, commitment and overthrowing your entire life and home to accommodate the ungrateful little darlings. It costs money, it sucks up your life, and it demands more than you're willing to give. Younger people have careers, can't afford to buy a home; they have partners and children and live in rental housing, which isn't friendly to pets let alone bats. They are time poor, money poor and not in the right position to do this, so it requires an older person who is still spry, financially stable, with a vehicle and nothing better to do with their lives. The Princess who was very heavily into the flying-foxes has had 2 wingless pups (her own personal human kids), and doesn't have the time or money to do this no matter how much she wants to. If I'm to mentor someone it has to be someone with whom I can work, who is in a position to do this. There isn't anyone; people come and go but bat rescue is hard work and not for everyone. Since I started 17 and a half years ago, there have been 2 women who lasted more than a year, one of whom has been doing it for about 13 years now but more intermittently than year round, plus another one who was mainly into rescue and microbats, but she's just had a baby and is out for the duration. Occasional people last a year or so and drift away. If you live in an apartment and don't have space for hanging bats, and don't have a cooperative landlord, it's nearly impossible to care for bats, (apart from babies), so you HAVE to form a relationship with someone who has facilities who is prepared to take the bats you rescue. I can't have adults here other than overnight, but I do have a relationship with 2 people who will take my adults. And you have to get along with the people to whom you're delivering your rescues; you have to respect them and vice versa. If all the stars align, I might get a new person every 8 years; I'm about due for one soon. And I intend to spend another 10 years at least doing this, and after that I'll see how close I am to my use-by date or past my best-by date.
@ I’m a Dog Rescuer and have 6 disabled dogs at home iv had dozens off dogs through my door and have adopted lots off dogs with issues wether it be health or behaviour sadly some have only lived one year and only been young dogs off 2-3years old I am constantly grieving I have 10 little urns off dogs that have passed away since 2014 and I have another 6 at home to go through it with my health has taken a dive too, Rescuing takes over our entire life physically, mentally, financially and especially mental health people get upset with me for sharing posts about a little skinny neglected dog if only they realy knew what goes on the stuff I’m sent by private message stuff I cannot post about, iv helped Rehome hundreds off dogs aswell as take in all the broken dogs nobody wants, what annoys me is they beg us to save that dog and do something about it’s situation yet won’t help us with donations etc they don’t understand we cannot rehome an unhealthy dog we can spend hundreds or thousands making that dog well again and the mouths off utter cheek we get when we ask for an adoption fee off say £250 and that goes to help the next dog in need, I feel your pain from here I get you and I hear you loud and clear..❤️🙏There’s no loyalty and commitment this day and age and it’s soul destroying..Your Wonderfull and an Amazing lady 🙏❤️🙂
Rescue is not for everyone; me putting up the videos for scrutiny probably makes it worse if the viewers don't like the outcome; it's always my fault that an animal dies if they think they could have done it better. If people don't understand what my passion is, I don't need that person in my life dragging me down. Someone yesterday asked why my facility is so messy; simple reason - it's messy because there's too much batty stuff and there is nowhere to store it away, so it's all out and around. And I don't have a "facility", I have my home in which I've learned to live in clutter because there's no room for me and the batties and their things.
I'd say it was spasticity; a heightened state of muscle reflex hyper-excitability that can cause sudden muscle twitching, tightening, or stiffening. Spasticity is common after a severe traumatic brain injury. It can also be from low blood sugar, which is why we give them the glucose at rescue.
It was a horrible dry tickle which just grabbed me during the rescue; it sorted itself out with some water. I've been haunted with allergies forever, but the tickle in the throat thing is only occasional.
I always thought there were no stupid questions, just unasked questions, however some of my viewers do actually ask incredibly stupid questions so I no longer use that saying. Your question isn't stupid; it's a good question. Their noses have divided nostrils for several reasons; one is that they get stereo-olfaction - which means the nostrils are canted to the sides (the holes are on the side), and they can directionally search out blossom and nectar from the scent. Also, when you eat sloppy rainforest fruits and you're upside down, any juice runs down the channel between your nostrils, not into your nose and lungs.
Brilliant, that completely makes sense. Thank you. I thought it would be something to do with feeding or the search for food but every time I watch you I look at their little noses and think to myself there must be a reason for them being the way they are. I continuously find these types of characteristics in animals mind boggling. So simple yet complex all rolled into one… I know it’s par for the course but I’m so sorry you lost mum and I know the little one wasn’t doing so well...
I don't know because I don't know how long they were there, how injured mumbat was after crash landing, how much fluids they had and how much trauma baby suffered during all this.
Out of all the bat videos that I have seen, this is the first one where I actually heard a bat scream. Well, actually make ANY vocal noise. Prior to this video, I thought bats were mute.
Bats are noisy creatures; you haven't watched enough of my videos to notice this. THey're very socially gregarious, quite territorial and determined that what they want is what they're going to get, even if they have to yell for an hour to get it. Mating is even noisier with a lot of screaming into each others' face.
@@Megabattie Looks like I have a lot to learn about bats. Your video that I remember the best was the one where you placed the baby on the floor so its mom could see it and then flew down to scoop it up and fly away home. And that was also was the time that I learned that bats can actually fly directly up from the ground, though it wasn't easy. But I guess you can check that up to the miracles a mom can do when saving her baby!
@@mikeifyouplease LOL I don't think that video was one of mine; I have NEVER put a baby on the ground to get mumbat to come and pick it up; flying-foxes can't fly off the ground because they can't stand up, however microbats can and will pick up their babies from a flat surface (different mass to lift ratio). I have reunited babies but never microbats, but any baby I reunite is always put up high where mumbat can climb down to get baby to climb on her. Try searching in the YT search bar for Megabattie/Crimson/reuniting - that was possibly the one which was most successful and fastest (some take hours). Some big juvies can get off the ground if they've got a long flat area but certainly no bat mum could lift her and a baby off the ground. The babies are about 20% of the size of the mumbat.
Thank you, Meg. You made sure mom and bub were comforted until the last.
My dear friend Meg, so heart-rending
and tearful. But you gave them great care so they were safe and warm. Heartbreaking but at least they knew care before they passed.
Realistically I didn't expect Lizzie to survive, however I was hopeful for Buck, until I took him off his mum and he wasn't particularly active or grabby or crying for his mum.
Made me so sad. Can’t imagine how it affects you, yet you never give up. I’m sure it’s discouraging to say the least. Bless you for trying & they weren’t abandoned to die alone.
Constantly amazed at wonderful you are with these babies. Thankful & grateful that they have you on their side. Win or lose.
there's been a lot of loss lately
So sad! I was so hopefull - seeing the energy, but nope. .. Meg - Thank you for continuing on. You and the others are true heros. RIP Lizzie and Buck...
I didn't think Lizzie had a hope of survival but I didn't realise Buck was so bad until I took him off his mum and he was very quiet and not active or grabby
I am deeply sorry about Mumbat Lizzie and her little man Bat Buck!😭🩶🦇🦇💔 There's never a doubt in my mind, that you do everything possible for the Bats you Rescue and care for. I am so very sorry Meg!😓💕💕
Rest in peace mum Lizzie and baby Buck.Thank you Meg for helping these beautiful creatures. 💗🦇🦇💗🙏🌈
Rest in peace Lizzie and baby Buck, it was just your time to go. If there is a battie afterlife, I hope you join the great chiroptera throng in perfect bliss and happiness.
RIP Lizzie and Buck
Rest in Peace Lizzie and Buck.
Rest in peace, Lizzie and Buck.😢😢 A mothers fight for her baby in any species.😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️
Even though she was mostly dead, she still fought for him until she couldn't fight further.
Heartbreaking, so heartbreaking, a mums screaming to protect her baby till the end!!! Rip good mum with your baby!!!!!!! ❤❤
She was very brave. Sorry that there wasn't much of a chance for either one of them 😢.
@@pascalelavalette4015 you're so rude, shame on you
@@Megabattie Meg, did you read Pascalelavalette's comment??? It's so rude, this person hates bats, I replied her(, she wrote in French)
😢 thank you dear Meg for trying ❤🍁🦇🇨🇦
Povera mamma e cucciolo, è così triste 😢 RIP Lizzie e Buck🦇🦇💕
Grazie per il vostro impegno che a volte va incontro all'insuccesso. 🙏❤
Thank you, wonderful person, for caring about living beings
And also for those who have passed away, God bless their wee souls xx
I had hopes from the title that it was just a matter of them being physically trapped, but then I read the description. I agree, the effects of adrenaline are incredible, she was so close to the end but fighting with every fibre of her being. RIP Lizzie and Buck 💔
Yes, she was dead within an hour of rescue; I can't fix things where the fate is already determined by the amount of damage done; I had hopes that Buck would be OK, but he was wrong from the second I took him off his mum,.
@@Megabattie So sad, as soon as he didn't take any milk, I thought there wasn't much fight left. Poor love
❤❤They're together again in the afterlife {at least their energies are since 'life force' is an energy that can never die.} Fly on you beautiful lovelies ~🌠🦇🦇💜✨️
God bless you for trying so hard for Mum and baby your an angel 😇
😢 and so it goes. Thank you for your efforts Meg.💔💐
I've never heard a bat's sound...it sounds like a pig and a goose!! How much tenderness bats make me feel...
Greetings from Italy.
RIP sweet mumma and bubba sky pups...
😢😢❤❤🦇🦇😪😪
Very sad, whatever happened to them both. Poor mum trying to protect herself & her baby in a bad situation. Thank you, Meg.
So sad for mommy but she got Buck to safety, she did the best she could. Little Buck I hope you live a wonderful life.
Buch died 18 hours after his mum, it's in the description. Poor little fella, and poor bat momma.
❤🦇❤ 🕯🕯
Im so sorry Meg, it must be heartbreaking, its so sad. Thank you for trying ❤❤❤
So sad, RIP MOMMY AND BABY
Poor Mama. She fought a good fight right till the end. She felt safe enough with you to just let you take the baby and they go in peace. 😢❤
Thank you for helping them ❤
Feisty lil mum
It’s so difficult for me to watch you lose any bats. I can’t imagine how hard it must be for you. It sounded like mum and baby might have been in the courtyard for a few days or more. Thank you for trying to save the bats. God bless 🙏
It's how it is at the moment, but every rescue I go on I go with the assumption that the bat will survive; it's not happening like that now but eventually the stats will change and the bats will be mostly survivors again.
Brought tears to my eyes. 😢💔🦇💔🦇
Rest in Peace Mum and little one. 🙏🏻
Meg, I am quite moved by your attention to help Lizzie and Buck. I feel for these animals since mankind is so driven for its own dominant survival. The years of experience that you give for earth's creatures I can almost cry for all of nature. Educating the public and keeping an I out for these guys is paramount! Thank you ❤
Thanks @reluctantme5183
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@@Megabattie ❤
@@Megabattie ❤
What a shame they couldn't survive 😞 Thank you for trying! Rest in peace sweet flyers. 🦇🦇
I should have read the description first. I can’t handle the sadness when they don’t make it. You’re doing great work and you must be so resilient.
I have to be resilient and cope, otherwise I couldn't do this
Thank you for saving all God's creatures. They all matter. Poor little baby. Im surevits scared & cinfused. Gid Bless you.❤😂🎉😊
The fight for nature is rough and emotional, but we cannot give up. Your love will not go wasted
Omg her crying i couldnt take it😢😢😢😢😢thanks for helping them❤
A valiant rescue and a valiant mum bat doing all she could, but it was just too much for her and the baby. Thanks for all you do, Meg.
Poor momma and baby! It's heartbreaking, but thank you for trying! Bats are some of the most adorable creatures out there.
Bravooooo, gracias por tu Humanidad, hay que ayudar y rescatar la mayor cantidad de especies. Ya hemos acabado con hábitat y tanto Ser Vivo y Sintiente que estos ejemplos dan esperanza ❤
Bless you with this protective mom and baby ❤️🍼
I don't know you but you have to be the sweetest person I have seen in a while. Thanks for taking care of these wonderful creatures.
I don't think anyone would call Meg sweet if they actually knew me; I can be kind and caring, however I'm also acerbic, blunt and straightforward which doesn't equate to sweet.
And I don't always observe social niceties; I assume the person knows I mean well, but I don't say please and thank you all the time (it gets in the way in rescue situations), and I don't pander to vets, but treat them as equals, so sometimes I offend them because I don't worship them enough (I just think of them as people with the same interest in the animal and a different or expanded skillset from mine).
I find the vets I work with are refreshingly human and who take me at face value, for who I am; it works for us and I consider 3 of the vets my very good and personal friends. (I doubt they'd call me sweet either).
@@Megabattie Perhaps not to other humans but I stand by my words with regards to those little flying furballs.
@@NicChap LOL thanks
They really do have the cutest little faces.
Lo siento mucho. Es una pena que murieran amb@s. Usted siga intentándolo. Seguro que conseguirá salvar a algun@s.
Oooh you are amazing. So strong and soft at the same time. RIP momma and baby. 😢😢🥹😰😥
So sad for both, mumbat and her pup😢😢 May they now, fly free, together, in bat's heaven🌌🌈
I am so sorry. Heroic attempt to save them and you did all that you could.
I just love these videos. Who knew bats could be so cute. Love ‘em.
😢 You did everything you could. Nevertheless, I always feel sad if something like this happens and we're unable to help. Thank you for being there and guiding them. 🙏💜
God bless you for your humanity!!❤❤❤❤
So sad. Thank you, Meg for doing what can be done.
Very sad.
You are so courageous thank you for having such a big heart❤
rip poor little loves, youre not having loads of luck with your batties lately are you, still im sure the fact that youre doing what youre doing is helping, youre a lovely person, and hopefully you will find a survivor soon, im afraid it upsets me so much that i read whats happend first, cos i cry when they pass , i think youre a strong lady, much more than me x BLESS YOU X
Poor lil ones. I wonder if she gave up knowing if her pup was gonna make it, itd be in your hands. Those eye movement and shaking, yeah, IC pressure's screwy w/vestibular damage or shes ingested a bad toxin. My guess, smack in to the wall, topple down into cement, baby injured in fall onto cement. Just from the weird layout of that building. I could see her sailing in, hard smack, topple down, hit baby. But those spasms may also be poison ingestion affecting the nervous system. Which could also affect the baby in the milk. Without a scan and bloodtest impossible to tell.
Do you ever get necropsy on cases like this?
I don't think there are toxins in the environment that they pickup, and if they did there would be many more coming in iwi the same symptoms. Baby Buck was squidgy from the start though - not particularly active or vocal; I wonder how long they had been there; I don't think the guy had properly moved in or was actually living there
Her crying reaches my soul . Poor brave humans maybes baby hasn't fed for a long time.
So sad, despite your heroic efforts Meg.
I've seen enough of these to know what the jerking movement and lack of octo-pup mean, and even knowing, it hurts to watch them go. I can't imagine what it's like for you, with so many rescues having the same outcome, but I keep watching because in spite of that you still give them every possible chance. I know, you have to, but it takes strength to carry on with so much death. I'm sorry it's not getting much better, but it will. Hang in there, Meg. RIP, Lizzie and little Buck.
I'm hanging in there but the occasional survivor is the only thing keeping me going.
I can see they're not going to make it - but I thought Buck would, until he wasn't grabby and wasn't interested in a feed.
Oh my God the crying & screaming made me cry poor darling so scared not understanding megs trying to help.
Estoy llorando y saber que algunos ni reciben ayuda 😭 muchas gracias por tu ayuda les diste una esperanza y seguridad para descansar
My heart breaks every time!
So sad!! 😢😢😢😢😢😢
She's so feisty, even when she's a addled as she is from that hit. I don't think I've seen the chronic spasms before; they look like it makes it trickier to discern whether she's aiming to get you or just glitching. Luckily it looks like the Megabattie's honed reflexes are too quick to fall for her unintentionally feints.
Does getting thumb-boxed hurt, or is it more of a startling sensation of contact, like getting slapped by a cat?
It depends on whether they hook you or not; it doesn't hurt but the hooks on their thumbs are sharp.
Meg, you definitely did what you could, and having you with them at the end, I'm thinking, helped them some. They definitely hung on until the end, especially mom. As she was worried about her boy, and once you were there, she could let go, as they both moved on.😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
❤😭, Danke, dass Ihnen mit Liebe über die Regenbogenbrücke geholfen wurde! Ruhet in Frieden🦇❤😢!
😢😢sweet little Lizzie and Buck. I’m so sorry 🦇 💕🦇💕🦇
It happens but I wasn't really expecting it; there is usually a fairly good survival rate for balcony/courtyard entrapments.
Just by it’s cry . All creatures want to live!!!
THANK YOU THANKYOU
Your voice is so calming❤❤❤❤❤
So sorry for yet another death, actually two. I admire you for how you persevere in spite of the sad outcomes. I have learned to read the descriptions, so I knew this wasn’t a happy ending, but I still got a smile when Buck showed off his big battie feetsies. 8:57
Unfortunately few bats are surviving at the moment.
😢
Sending hugs and prayers
Is it just the stress of being trapped that causes these deaths? I know you cannot know how long they hve been trapped but the bats do not seem very resilient.
Most likely her attempts to fly out from that potted plant (the only thing she could climb) resulted in multiple concussions from impacts with the walls
I don't know why she ended up on the ground to begin with; I know that flying low in an area with multiple roof levels leads to entrapment; I don't know how much she struggled to get out, or how long she was in the courtyard; trying to escape multiple times though leads to concussion.
There is often a stress myopathy involved as well, and lack of fluids and continual struggles to get out lead to the myopathy which affects heart and kidneys.
THere is some speculation that bats, if captured (like by a raptor or a snake) die really quickly so they don't need a mechanism to help them survive capture myopathy because they're dead before they even get the myopathy.
thank you so much for the input-makes a lot of sense that they might be fragile, in a way, by design. Better not to suffer if you are a small critter. Thank you for the effort to save all the lovely batties.
They were both, in good hands, until the end. 🙏
Mrs Meggabattie you are such a Wonderfull woman I watch your videos from the Uk and I look forward to seeing what miracles and magic you do to help these gorgeous Bats, Thank goodness they have you to help them, do you train anyone up to take over should say you become I’ll yourself sorry such a morbid question but I do worry for the Bats if they don’t have you 🙏❤️❤️❤️
I'm not training anyone; there's nobody who wants to do this like I do; if someone turns up I'll teach them, but basically for the younger people, it's too hard and they just want to dabble in rescue not actually commit to it.
@@Megabattie That’s sad can’t believe that nobody would love to learn what you do saddens my heart they are Beautifull animals Flying foxes dogs with wings You are wonderfull at what you do and so very committed 🙏❤️❤️❤️
Being a bat rescuer isn't about dabbling and doing the occasional rescue; it requires time, commitment and overthrowing your entire life and home to accommodate the ungrateful little darlings.
It costs money, it sucks up your life, and it demands more than you're willing to give.
Younger people have careers, can't afford to buy a home; they have partners and children and live in rental housing, which isn't friendly to pets let alone bats. They are time poor, money poor and not in the right position to do this, so it requires an older person who is still spry, financially stable, with a vehicle and nothing better to do with their lives. The Princess who was very heavily into the flying-foxes has had 2 wingless pups (her own personal human kids), and doesn't have the time or money to do this no matter how much she wants to.
If I'm to mentor someone it has to be someone with whom I can work, who is in a position to do this. There isn't anyone; people come and go but bat rescue is hard work and not for everyone.
Since I started 17 and a half years ago, there have been 2 women who lasted more than a year, one of whom has been doing it for about 13 years now but more intermittently than year round, plus another one who was mainly into rescue and microbats, but she's just had a baby and is out for the duration.
Occasional people last a year or so and drift away.
If you live in an apartment and don't have space for hanging bats, and don't have a cooperative landlord, it's nearly impossible to care for bats, (apart from babies), so you HAVE to form a relationship with someone who has facilities who is prepared to take the bats you rescue. I can't have adults here other than overnight, but I do have a relationship with 2 people who will take my adults.
And you have to get along with the people to whom you're delivering your rescues; you have to respect them and vice versa.
If all the stars align, I might get a new person every 8 years; I'm about due for one soon.
And I intend to spend another 10 years at least doing this, and after that I'll see how close I am to my use-by date or past my best-by date.
@ I’m a Dog Rescuer and have 6 disabled dogs at home iv had dozens off dogs through my door and have adopted lots off dogs with issues wether it be health or behaviour sadly some have only lived one year and only been young dogs off 2-3years old I am constantly grieving I have 10 little urns off dogs that have passed away since 2014 and I have another 6 at home to go through it with my health has taken a dive too, Rescuing takes over our entire life physically, mentally, financially and especially mental health people get upset with me for sharing posts about a little skinny neglected dog if only they realy knew what goes on the stuff I’m sent by private message stuff I cannot post about, iv helped Rehome hundreds off dogs aswell as take in all the broken dogs nobody wants, what annoys me is they beg us to save that dog and do something about it’s situation yet won’t help us with donations etc they don’t understand we cannot rehome an unhealthy dog we can spend hundreds or thousands making that dog well again and the mouths off utter cheek we get when we ask for an adoption fee off say £250 and that goes to help the next dog in need, I feel your pain from here I get you and I hear you loud and clear..❤️🙏There’s no loyalty and commitment this day and age and it’s soul destroying..Your Wonderfull and an Amazing lady 🙏❤️🙂
Rescue is not for everyone; me putting up the videos for scrutiny probably makes it worse if the viewers don't like the outcome; it's always my fault that an animal dies if they think they could have done it better.
If people don't understand what my passion is, I don't need that person in my life dragging me down.
Someone yesterday asked why my facility is so messy; simple reason - it's messy because there's too much batty stuff and there is nowhere to store it away, so it's all out and around.
And I don't have a "facility", I have my home in which I've learned to live in clutter because there's no room for me and the batties and their things.
Even a large bird with a wingspan as big as a Flying Fox would struggle to get out of this trap
Yes, but the bird would be able to hop to the wall and use it as a launching pad; they can launch almost vertically...
So cute a bat!😁
That's so sad that they both died, very sad!! 😭😭😭
Such a sad ending for both of them. Would you classify Lizzie's jerky movements as convulsions? I am so glad they had such loving care until the end.
I'd say it was spasticity; a heightened state of muscle reflex hyper-excitability that can cause sudden muscle twitching, tightening, or stiffening. Spasticity is common after a severe traumatic brain injury.
It can also be from low blood sugar, which is why we give them the glucose at rescue.
she's hungry and thirsty...poor thing!!
Who knows how often he checked his balcony. So sorry Meg 😞 but they passed in loving 💗 hands 🫶
Povere creature 😢❤❤❤
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Poor mom, wanting to protect her baby.
RIP sweet darlings!
Sorry about the tickle in your throat. I can certainly relate. I've been haunted by allergies and post nasal drip all my life.
It was a horrible dry tickle which just grabbed me during the rescue; it sorted itself out with some water.
I've been haunted with allergies forever, but the tickle in the throat thing is only occasional.
Amazing work. ❤ sadly mom and baby didn't make it... 😢
Broke my heart
So sad😢❤️🦇
Que triste que no hayan sobrevivido. Están tan expuestos a los daños en la naturaleza.
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I have lot of experience with baby and adult squirrels rescues but bats seems to be more difficult, poor mum and baby bats, so sad to see then go, 😢
LOL that sounds challenging; squirrels are very mobile and generally trees are involved with means climbing and ladders and nets... Well done.
Poor momma and baby.
The way you rescued this mum was so tender. Can I ask a stupid question please; is there an evolutionary reason for their dimpled noses?
I always thought there were no stupid questions, just unasked questions, however some of my viewers do actually ask incredibly stupid questions so I no longer use that saying.
Your question isn't stupid; it's a good question.
Their noses have divided nostrils for several reasons; one is that they get stereo-olfaction - which means the nostrils are canted to the sides (the holes are on the side), and they can directionally search out blossom and nectar from the scent.
Also, when you eat sloppy rainforest fruits and you're upside down, any juice runs down the channel between your nostrils, not into your nose and lungs.
Brilliant, that completely makes sense. Thank you. I thought it would be something to do with feeding or the search for food but every time I watch you I look at their little noses and think to myself there must be a reason for them being the way they are. I continuously find these types of characteristics in animals mind boggling. So simple yet complex all rolled into one… I know it’s par for the course but I’m so sorry you lost mum and I know the little one wasn’t doing so well...
@@zotheflow I like all the little anatomical details which are specific to the batties.
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What could have caused the baby's death? Would it have been head trauma too?
I don't know because I don't know how long they were there, how injured mumbat was after crash landing, how much fluids they had and how much trauma baby suffered during all this.
Did the baby live???
No, he died too; they were both wrong; mumbat was wrong at rescue, and baby was very limp and flat when I took him off his mum.
amori belli 😭😭🌈❤️
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Out of all the bat videos that I have seen, this is the first one where I actually heard a bat scream. Well, actually make ANY vocal noise. Prior to this video, I thought bats were mute.
Bats are noisy creatures; you haven't watched enough of my videos to notice this.
THey're very socially gregarious, quite territorial and determined that what they want is what they're going to get, even if they have to yell for an hour to get it.
Mating is even noisier with a lot of screaming into each others' face.
@@Megabattie Looks like I have a lot to learn about bats. Your video that I remember the best was the one where you placed the baby on the floor so its
mom could see it and then flew down to scoop it up and fly away home. And that was also was the time that I learned that bats can actually fly directly
up from the ground, though it wasn't easy. But I guess you can check that up to the miracles a mom can do when saving her baby!
@@mikeifyouplease LOL I don't think that video was one of mine; I have NEVER put a baby on the ground to get mumbat to come and pick it up; flying-foxes can't fly off the ground because they can't stand up, however microbats can and will pick up their babies from a flat surface (different mass to lift ratio).
I have reunited babies but never microbats, but any baby I reunite is always put up high where mumbat can climb down to get baby to climb on her.
Try searching in the YT search bar for Megabattie/Crimson/reuniting - that was possibly the one which was most successful and fastest (some take hours). Some big juvies can get off the ground if they've got a long flat area but certainly no bat mum could lift her and a baby off the ground. The babies are about 20% of the size of the mumbat.
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