Bat Enjoys Tasty Snack After Being Rescued From Barbed Wire

Storyful
2 年前

An eastern tube-nosed bat is recovering at an Australian sanctuary after getting caught on barbed wire, footage shared on May 16 shows.

Video posted online by Queenslander Denise Wade, who has been caring for injured baby bats for more than a decade, shows the injured tube-nosed bat – the first she has ever cared for – enjoying some custard apples.

“Following weeks of rain, food resources are waning and our bats are starting to take risks just to keep themselves fed,” Wade explained in the YouTube caption.

She added that after a “marathon effort”, the 58-gram adult female was rescued from barbed wire in a flooded suburb in outer Brisbane.

“Whilst we would all give our eye teeth not to have her in care, the reality is that so many wildlife species are caught on barbed wire,” she wrote.

According to Wade, as the bat is an adult female “she is probably pregnant” and they hope to release her back to the wild “well before she gives birth”.

Attending to the injured bats at her home in Rochedale South, she regularly shares updates on the animals to her Batzilla the Bat YouTube and Facebook pages. Credit: Batzilla the Bat via Storyful