Bat World Raises an Orphaned Fruit Bat, Lil' Drac

If you are afraid of bats, please watch this. It is a really beautiful little story about hand-raising an orphaned baby bat at Bat World Sanctuary. The video is really well-done and explains almost everything they have to do to help the bat survive. One thing they didn't explain is the rubbing of the lower abdomen which I know in other baby mammals simulates the mother's licking, which stimulates elimination processes. I find it amazing how we learned to do these particular things that are all essential for its survival. If you have ever tried to raise a wild baby animal--and I unsuccessfully have, before the invention of google--you will know it is not easy and there are very particular things you have to do or the animal will die, quickly.



Here is another rescue story from Bat World of a bat covered in a glue-like substance (Tanglefoot) intended to "repel" (slowly kill) birds and whoever else comes across the substance. Sad.