Baby flying-fox daily life: Maggie with a very wriggly Sequoia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ธ.ค. 2020
- Sequoia is a 9 week old Grey-Headed Flying-Fox orphan who was found on the ground on her dead electrocuted mother.
She has been in care with me for about 7 weeks now. She's a funny little character, frequently with ants in her pants and scampering around with no idea what she wants to do.
She doesn't like Guinness, and tries to beat him up whenever she is near him. I have taken to taking off the bridge between the 2 airers overnight when I'm not supervising them.
Both Sequoia is becoming much more nocturnal and spend her days snoozing on the airer, only waking up at dusk and becoming more interactive and exploring her surrounds.
She is kind of self feeding for the fruit, but still not self feeding enough to start weaning her. She will be going to minicreche at the end of the week where she will wean and hang out with the other minicreche babies, then she'll be off to creche proper and on the path for release. Minicreche is a pre creche where people who live in apartments can turn over their babies earlier than creche age so the babies get some aviary time, some flapping space where they can learn to fly and build up their flight muscles and stamina. And they can learn to eat fruit and compete for resources in a situation where there is plenty. They will basically learning to be batties again and to live in a batty society.
When the hand raised babies are 3 months old, they go into a creche, where they join other orphans and form a group. At this stage they'd be separating from this batty mums and be becoming more independent in the colony. In creche, at this age, they learn batty etiquette and how to live in a batty society. They shrug off their human mums and want to be with the other batties. When they are emotionally and physically ready, and uninjured, and around 4-5 months old, they’re put into a release cage under a colony and they can integrate into the colony and fly out with the wild bats. If they can’t find enough food, they can always come back to the cage for a feed. Support feeding is put up on the outside of the cage for as long as they are coming back and eating it. When the colony flies out for winter, they have fully integrated and fly out with them.
Meg: (with the accurate and precise technicals)
She's just all wiggly and giggly after her bath.
absolute doll.... here's to a kinder, better year.
She is absolutely adorable, has the cutest happiest face and deserves all the grapes for her wiggly tummy <3
That grape looks huge! Good to see her devouring it with such gusto. Dear Sequoia with the concentration of a piece of limp spaghetti.
Wishing all Battie lovers a Happy and Healthy 2012!
She is just so cute...a perfect way to bring in the new year!
She wants a small piece of that caramel fudge. LOL
Oh thank you so much, dear Meg and Maggie!
"Trouble? Moi?"
I absolutely ADORE all the bat videos but this one was so special because we just got to watch the little one nibble and crawl and explore and not look unhappy and lost. You do such a wonderful job and I thank you for your hard work and dedication to the wonderful flying-fox and batty bats! Love and hugs!
Happy new year
Happy 2021 ladies and batties! and may this year be like little Sequoia... a bit kinder and gentler to all of us.
So precious
What sort of individual gives this a thumb down?
I hate to see them go but they have to grow up sometime. I'm going to miss this little schmoopy. 😢
Its like she adores Maggie and she doesnt want her to go anywhere so shes always love biting her arm as saying come close to me, please! shes so adorable ♥
She’s such a beauty! Very cute case of grape face! I will miss her when she goes off to minicreche. Go make little bat babies of your own, sweet girl! ❤️🦇❤️
Oh my goodness, our little Sequoia is going to minicreche in just a few more days, how fast she and Guinness have grown .. She is both beautiful and feisty, thanks for this longer video of her ❤️❤️❤️❤️
My wife and I have talked about taking a trip to Australia for the entire 38 years we've been married and now we have just one more reason to make that trip. These are the most beautiful, fascinating animals I have ever seen and I don't want to get to the end of my life without ever having seen one in person.