bats Archives - Our Funny Little Site Thu, 19 Mar 2020 07:28:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Sarah Curran Rescues Bats Because They Saved Her Life https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/sarah-curran-rescues-bats-because-they-saved-her-life/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:18:00 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=10920 Sarah Curran, a volunteer at Sydney Wildlife suffered pretty severely from anxiety and panic attacks. It was so bad that she wasn’t able to function and she needed to be hospitalized twice. Fortunately, she found a way to make her feel better; she joined a volunteer rescue organization and fell in love with bats. “The […]

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]]> Sarah Curran, a volunteer at Sydney Wildlife suffered pretty severely from anxiety and panic attacks. It was so bad that she wasn’t able to function and she needed to be hospitalized twice. Fortunately, she found a way to make her feel better; she joined a volunteer rescue organization and fell in love with bats.

“The bats gave me something to focus on that wasn’t myself and it gave me a reason to want to get better,” she told The Dodo and added that her house is now full of rescued bats. “I rescue out of my parent’s home. The maximum number of animals that I’ve had in my house was…90.”

She is thankful for everything bats have done for her that she just can’t stop helping them.

“That’s what – what did it for me and it’s just been one long road. I was in a pretty low place, and I just am grateful because I don’t think I would’ve gotten out of that. I haven’t really said that before, but they’ve done so much for me and I wanna do the best for them that I can possibly do,” Curran finished.

Curran shares images of her bats on social media accounts, Facebook where she has attracted more than 25,000 followers and an Instagram page with over 7,000 fans. Scroll down and check out her adorable bats.

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Had my first case of tick paralysis, in ten years of rescuing and rehabbing bats. This is perhaps a very unlucky indication of how poorly the grey-headed flying-foxes are doing because they should generally forage higher than where paralysis ticks naturally occur. The recent bushfires have decimated critical food sources for these large bats, which means they are more likely to be found in less suitable habitat like low street shrubs and backyard fruit trees where they are more likely to come in to trouble with injury. Thanks to the generosity of the wonderful vets at @gordonvet hospital, who donated tick serum and pain relief, to give her a chance of survival. Without treatment, the tick toxin, which was already starting to show some signs, would have killed her! If you come across any bat by itself during the day or hanging low unable to fly away at any time, it is in serious trouble. Never handle a live bat. Urgently contact a vaccinated and trained local wildlife rescue group for specialist assessment. Grey-headed flying-foxes are endemic to the east coast of Australia and responsible for long distance seed dispersal and pollination of our gum trees. We have lost thousands and thousands of this threatened species in the last month. Every one is precious. Also massive thank you to the amazing Jenny from @tolgabathospital for being available to provide advice, as they deal with hundreds of tick paralysis cases in the spectacled flying-foxes in far north QLD each year #threatenedspecies #pollinators #batsofinstagram #nswbushfires #criticalcare #tickparalysis #paralysis #emergency #rescue #wildliferescue #batsarenotpets #veterinarian #veterinarymedicine @wvscharity

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]]> 3 Things You Didn’t Know About Bats https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/3-things-you-didnt-know-about-bats/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:56:21 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=9803 It may sound unbelievable, but bats make up one-fifth of all the mammals in the world. With a population so big, it’s natural that there are more and less popular species and some of them are pretty insane. Did you know that some bats catch fish and others build tents?‌ Here are three things you […]

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]]> It may sound unbelievable, but bats make up one-fifth of all the mammals in the world. With a population so big, it’s natural that there are more and less popular species and some of them are pretty insane. Did you know that some bats catch fish and others build tents?‌ Here are three things you didn’t know about bats.

The Smallest Bats

The smallest bats in the world belong to the Kitti hog-nosed species – this species is also among the smallest mammals in the world. A bat is just over an inch long and lighter than a penny. The species is native to Burma and Thailand.

Some Bats Sing to Attract Mates

The males of several species use singing to attract mates, and it’s just as complex as the singing of songbirds. They follow certain patterns, but also make their tunes unique by using various styles.

Some Bats Eat Scorpions

Desert long-eared bats feed on scorpions, among other things. They are native to parts of Africa, Asia, and the Middle east. In order to catch a scorpion, a bat attacks its head and doesn’t run away from some stinging.

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]]> How Bats Care for Their Babies? https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/how-bats-care-for-their-babies/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:29:16 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=4387 Did you know that female bats actually take care of each others’ babies? They form a group called Maternity Colony and raise their babies together. Apparently, they also believe that “it takes a village to raise a child”. Bats, like other mammals, don’t have many babies at a time. Most of them give birth to […]

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]]> Did you know that female bats actually take care of each others’ babies? They form a group called Maternity Colony and raise their babies together. Apparently, they also believe that “it takes a village to raise a child”.

Bats, like other mammals, don’t have many babies at a time. Most of them give birth to only one baby at a time. When born, pups are an inch long and completely dependent on their mothers. They feed with mother’s milk at first, and then they need their mothers to go out and fetch them some food.

While a mother is outside, her baby stays in the cave with other babies. When she returns, she knows exactly which baby is her – bat mothers can recognize cry and smell of their babies.

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> bats Archives - Our Funny Little Site Thu, 19 Mar 2020 07:28:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Sarah Curran Rescues Bats Because They Saved Her Life https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/sarah-curran-rescues-bats-because-they-saved-her-life/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:18:00 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=10920 Sarah Curran, a volunteer at Sydney Wildlife suffered pretty severely from anxiety and panic attacks. It was so bad that she wasn’t able to function and she needed to be hospitalized twice. Fortunately, she found a way to make her feel better; she joined a volunteer rescue organization and fell in love with bats. “The […]

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]]> Sarah Curran, a volunteer at Sydney Wildlife suffered pretty severely from anxiety and panic attacks. It was so bad that she wasn’t able to function and she needed to be hospitalized twice. Fortunately, she found a way to make her feel better; she joined a volunteer rescue organization and fell in love with bats.

“The bats gave me something to focus on that wasn’t myself and it gave me a reason to want to get better,” she told The Dodo and added that her house is now full of rescued bats. “I rescue out of my parent’s home. The maximum number of animals that I’ve had in my house was…90.”

She is thankful for everything bats have done for her that she just can’t stop helping them.

“That’s what – what did it for me and it’s just been one long road. I was in a pretty low place, and I just am grateful because I don’t think I would’ve gotten out of that. I haven’t really said that before, but they’ve done so much for me and I wanna do the best for them that I can possibly do,” Curran finished.

Curran shares images of her bats on social media accounts, Facebook where she has attracted more than 25,000 followers and an Instagram page with over 7,000 fans. Scroll down and check out her adorable bats.

View this post on Instagram

Had my first case of tick paralysis, in ten years of rescuing and rehabbing bats. This is perhaps a very unlucky indication of how poorly the grey-headed flying-foxes are doing because they should generally forage higher than where paralysis ticks naturally occur. The recent bushfires have decimated critical food sources for these large bats, which means they are more likely to be found in less suitable habitat like low street shrubs and backyard fruit trees where they are more likely to come in to trouble with injury. Thanks to the generosity of the wonderful vets at @gordonvet hospital, who donated tick serum and pain relief, to give her a chance of survival. Without treatment, the tick toxin, which was already starting to show some signs, would have killed her! If you come across any bat by itself during the day or hanging low unable to fly away at any time, it is in serious trouble. Never handle a live bat. Urgently contact a vaccinated and trained local wildlife rescue group for specialist assessment. Grey-headed flying-foxes are endemic to the east coast of Australia and responsible for long distance seed dispersal and pollination of our gum trees. We have lost thousands and thousands of this threatened species in the last month. Every one is precious. Also massive thank you to the amazing Jenny from @tolgabathospital for being available to provide advice, as they deal with hundreds of tick paralysis cases in the spectacled flying-foxes in far north QLD each year #threatenedspecies #pollinators #batsofinstagram #nswbushfires #criticalcare #tickparalysis #paralysis #emergency #rescue #wildliferescue #batsarenotpets #veterinarian #veterinarymedicine @wvscharity

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]]> 3 Things You Didn’t Know About Bats https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/3-things-you-didnt-know-about-bats/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:56:21 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=9803 It may sound unbelievable, but bats make up one-fifth of all the mammals in the world. With a population so big, it’s natural that there are more and less popular species and some of them are pretty insane. Did you know that some bats catch fish and others build tents?‌ Here are three things you […]

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]]> It may sound unbelievable, but bats make up one-fifth of all the mammals in the world. With a population so big, it’s natural that there are more and less popular species and some of them are pretty insane. Did you know that some bats catch fish and others build tents?‌ Here are three things you didn’t know about bats.

The Smallest Bats

The smallest bats in the world belong to the Kitti hog-nosed species – this species is also among the smallest mammals in the world. A bat is just over an inch long and lighter than a penny. The species is native to Burma and Thailand.

Some Bats Sing to Attract Mates

The males of several species use singing to attract mates, and it’s just as complex as the singing of songbirds. They follow certain patterns, but also make their tunes unique by using various styles.

Some Bats Eat Scorpions

Desert long-eared bats feed on scorpions, among other things. They are native to parts of Africa, Asia, and the Middle east. In order to catch a scorpion, a bat attacks its head and doesn’t run away from some stinging.

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]]> How Bats Care for Their Babies? https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/how-bats-care-for-their-babies/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:29:16 +0000 https://ourfunnylittlesite.com/?p=4387 Did you know that female bats actually take care of each others’ babies? They form a group called Maternity Colony and raise their babies together. Apparently, they also believe that “it takes a village to raise a child”. Bats, like other mammals, don’t have many babies at a time. Most of them give birth to […]

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]]> Did you know that female bats actually take care of each others’ babies? They form a group called Maternity Colony and raise their babies together. Apparently, they also believe that “it takes a village to raise a child”.

Bats, like other mammals, don’t have many babies at a time. Most of them give birth to only one baby at a time. When born, pups are an inch long and completely dependent on their mothers. They feed with mother’s milk at first, and then they need their mothers to go out and fetch them some food.

While a mother is outside, her baby stays in the cave with other babies. When she returns, she knows exactly which baby is her – bat mothers can recognize cry and smell of their babies.

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