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His mom was flying overhead looking out for him 💙By Sarah V Schweig
Sometimes all it takes to make a world of difference is a little warmth and a little kindness.
Take what happened just recently on a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. After heavy rains, a man was walking along when he noticed something dark lying on the ground.
When he realized it was a tiny baby fruit bat, terribly cold and struggling for his life, he knew he needed to call for help.
"We received a call of a baby bat lying on the freezing pavement," Shlomi Marco, who works with a local fruit bat sanctuary, told The Dodo.
Volunteers from the sanctuary rushed to the scene to help.
When they arrived, one volunteer spent a while just warming the baby bat between her hands. And as she was bringing him back to life, they noticed something above or, rather, someone.
"We noticed what seemed to be his mother flying relentlessly above us," Marco said.
That's when the volunteer holding the baby bat held out her hands and waited.
The mother bat was clearly anxious to hold her baby again but she was also very nervous about being so close to people.
Soon enough, she conquered her fear and landed right on the volunteer's hands.
"Even though mother bat is a wild animal scared of humans, she nevertheless landed on the volunteer's hand to pick [up] her baby," Marco said.
A family was reunited that night all because some people went out of their way to help.
https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/people-rescue-frozen-baby-bat-tel-aviv-israel
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The mother fruit bat certainly became fearless to recover her babe.
jpak
(41,760 posts)Didn't know there were fruit bats in Israel!
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)catbyte
(34,472 posts)I'll trust them to know what they were doing. Still, I'm sure that woman had a bottle of Purell at the ready.
pazzyanne
(6,558 posts)they probably were vaccinated for rabies. I have friends who work with raccoons, skunks, fox, etc. and they are vaccinated on a regular schedule.
wendyb-NC
(3,331 posts)Awesome rescue! I love it.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I would never have guessed the baby could be saved, and that the mother would come for her baby. Never in a million years.
How brave of that woman, too, because bats bite.
And how does the mother bat fly while holding a big moving baby like that?
Amazing.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,062 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)calimary
(81,521 posts)How cool is that?!
JudyM
(29,292 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)But the first thing she does is clap and then touch her face...
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)That is the first thing I noticed and worried about immediately. I wasn't so much like that when I was younger but with three kids my mommy danger radar is always active.
AllaN01Bear
(18,498 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)And I am only saying the next sentence because I am angry at the world atm....
The repug fuckers I know would have stomped on the baby bat and laughed at the blood stain on the ground as they strode away.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)KT2000
(20,590 posts)Really impressive. I can pick up a strange cat but not anything that bats its wings in my hands.
Loved how the mother got the baby on board and was still able to fly away.
Nitram
(22,900 posts)Thanks for sharing!
samnsara
(17,650 posts)guyfromla
(49 posts)If you had the same amount of empathy for Palestinians, I would be doubly happy