Rescuing Millefiori; a baby flying-fox found on her dead mother.

Описание: Note: I should have had gloves on while doing this, but when I arrived at the rescue, I couldn't find any gloves in my car; I must've taken them out to wash them and not returned them.
Please don't handle bats; even baby bats can scratch you when they grab you, because to be hooked onto something means they feel secure; the baby flying-foxes have incredibly sharp claws with an extra barb under the tips to help them velcro onto their mothers in flight.

I accepted a rescue call for a live baby on a dead mumbat at the Flour Mills. These were active flour mills but were converted in stages to an apartment block development about 10ish years ago.
I don't know why the mumbat died; there are no marks on her suggesting a collision with a car or a tangle with power lines.
But baby is alive and doing well. It's such a delight to have a baby who pees almost immediately and looks active and bright eyed.
The little blonde backed girl is a good weight for 12 days old.
Let's hope that this delightful lassie has a trouble free time whilst in our care.

Her name came from the Flour Mills. Welcome to my brain process: Flour/Flower/Fiori, and Mills/mille. Millefiori means 1000 flowers.
Lets hope our little Fiori has a million flowers in her life...

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).
https://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.
[email protected]