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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThere’s A Bat Hospital In Australia That Takes In Abandoned Baby Bats
http://www.boredpanda.com/abandoned-baby-bat-pup-tolga-bat-hospital/The fruit bat pups at the Tolga Bat Hospital in the Atherton Tablelands are brought in when they are afflicted by tick paralysis or when their mothers have died or become too ill to feed them (often from the same disease). Volunteers at the hospital nurse the bat pups back to health and then release them into the wild. The hospital also serves as a sanctuary for bats who have retired from zoos.
Coventina
(27,116 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)JEEZ!!!
Fla Dem
(23,666 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Absolutely adorable. I love my little brown bats here too, but I'd love to raise a baby fruit bat.
trueblue2007
(17,217 posts)livetohike
(22,142 posts)with a biologist and the boat stopped at a place where they had fruit bats and explained all about their lives. Loved seeing them up close and this picture reminded me of how cute they were .
starroute
(12,977 posts)They may not even be directly related to the insect-eating and vampire bats, which are the ones most people find scary.
Baby vampire bats are kind of cute in their own googly-eyed way, but they do take a bit of getting used to.
trof
(54,256 posts)What kind of bat would EVER abandon a baby bat?
I know I wouldn't.
These criminally neglectant bat mothers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!
The bat fathers too!
I'm glad those babies are now in child protective custody.
ffr
(22,669 posts)niyad
(113,302 posts)CrispyQ
(36,463 posts)Kick for cuteness!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)There's one in Cool, Texas too.....
I'd love to go be a Bat Rehabilitator...but there are too many creepy crawlies there....
And Australia has giant spiders.
a la izquierda
(11,794 posts)Yick.
a la izquierda
(11,794 posts)had to be euthanized last week.
I love bats. They are a power symbol in the Maya world (the Maya word for bat is zotz).
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)BTW, notice the claws on that one sucker.
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)ChazInAz
(2,569 posts)The middle one, staring at the camera, cracks me up for some reason.
Pictures like this explain why Sir Christopher Lee, noted bat person, once referred to them as "rather dear little creatures".