Rescuing a juvenile flying-fox on the ground: this is Ophiuchi
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Ophiuchi is a 14 week old juvenile female who was noticed on the ground in a ground cover planting in a harbourside park, curled up and looking unhappy. When I arrived she was very passive, cold and stunned.
She has obviously hit her head sometime during her contretemps with fate (and an immovable object), and is taking her time about regaining her mojo.
She has been with me for 24 hours and is not deteriorating so I expect she is a survivor and will gradually figure out that life in care is full of food and goodies, if you can stand the company of the ugly furless giant slaves providing the service...
She was found opposite the Star City Casino, so I wanted a galaxy of stars for this little girl, and given that she was also seeing stars, it seemed appropriate.
Ophiuchi is a nebula situated in Ophiuchus; rarely imaged LDN 43 is a dark nebula consisting of very dense material which blocks light from background stars. It frames LBN 7 a bright reflection nebula.
www.hansonastr...
Check it out if you want to see the celestial image of a bat in the sky...
A new video popped up right after my mom calls to tell me I'd be so afraid of the giant Draculas she saw. I said, fruit bats?! Do you realize how beautiful they are, I love them and I have Meg to thank for that. I'm in California. She's a retired RN but cared for adults in the neuro intensive care, as I'm the pediatric icu nurse but disabled right now. You have given me hope for a new passion if I ever feel well again. Wild life rescue. 💞
Animal transport /foster is also much needed
I used to be so afraid of bats... Now I pay them no mind. I try and spot them when I am out driving.
Meg has also inspired me too. All of her adorable flying fox babies that she saves, just amazing! I hope you recover enough to do whatever you want to, very soon. I am also a disabled RN. 5 spinal surgeries and now I have to have the last two redone, my hardware is coming loose, ugh! Best wishes!!
Prayers for you. 🙏💜🙏
@@erismana2105 That's an excellent suggestion.
Breaks my heart when they cry so loudly. Makes me fret when they're so passive. Call me fickle! She's a gorgeous wee thing - so happy she's a survivor! Your tone when talking to her was so soothing, so lovely. Thank you for everything you do!
I think you have it right. Sad when they are loud, fretting when they are too quiet. ( me too)
I love how you talk to the bats! So sweet and caring. ❤️❤️ She’s looking a lot better. She’s such a cutie! ❤️🦇
“Miss Space Cadet”.. I died 😎(I’m laughing just bc she is a survivor)
Meg, I’m imagining you in your early school years, responding to the usual question:
Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: A giant ugly furless bat slave, spreading love for bats worldwide while healing their hurts and stuffing them with food.
Good healing wishes for this little one. I hope she appreciates her heavenly name. Another whole world of potential batty names up there in the sky. I’ve always loved astronomy for the beauty and the mind-stretching scales and mysteries.
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I always wanted to be a nurse right from when I was young.
I have used some of the star, moon or moon names previously; I had Ganymede, Jupiter, Callisto and Io at one stage. And Betelgeuse and Bellatrix.
@@Megabattie These names of moon and stars are so fascinating to name a batty
If cuddles could only be the cure for all ails, I'd queue up for that in a hot little heartbeat!
That nebula is amazing. Takes no imagination at all to see it as a bat! I hope the little space cadet will come out of her daze and appreciate those expensive grapes!
That really is a beautiful photo of the cosmic bat…I think our little girl knocked herself right out of an appetite, but Meg will bring her around I’m sure.🖤🇨🇦
Poor sweetheart, she looked like she knocked herself into next week. I’m glad she is not deteriorating, and really hope she comes good again soon. Ophiuchi is the perfect name for this beautiful girl (loved the image of the cosmic bat). That was an odd little half back summersault she did when you left her to see what she would do…but a good try.✨🖤🇨🇦
Awwww sweetie… she looked so dazed at time of rescue. Delirious.
I hope she makes it. I’d like to see her looking more alert.
But she is super cute as a space cadet.
She has very long fangs for such a tiny girl, but most adorable! 🥰😍
She has her adult teeth
Bellissimo brava Batty sempre tempestiva un bacio grande a te e i piccoli❤❤❤
Ophiuchi is just as beautiful as the nebula. Good luck sweet girl, we're rooting for you!
Sweet baby in the best care possible. 💜🦇💜
She sure is alittle sweetheart💜🦇 love to listen to meg talk to them,,,
She looks like she loves being wrapped up. Come on sweet baby…
It's so great when they wiggle both legs. And I love your glucose tube with the protective tale where it's been bitten. :)
Jaw dropped seeing you just put your finger around the bats mouth you JUST picked up. You have good intuition on these lil fellas
I'm very fast and I watch their body language, and I am reading her as being very passive; in fact I had to open her mouth to get her to take food.
Good luck darlin girl! 🦇💞💞💞🦇
Meg is a wonderful person who cares deeply for these once scary little babies who now I am no longer afraid of because of her. This little one is so beautiful... With sad scared eyes. Don't worry... You are in the best of care with Meg! Thanks again Meg!
Love Stacey
Rochester Ny
Thanks Stacey. As I write this she's hanging in the dressing gown so I can see how she's hanging.
@@Megabattie ❤️❤️ she must love your attention.
@@stacey27685930 She's still in the terrified phase at the moment.
Meg, you are such a renaissance woman. That nebula picture is just fantastic! Fingers crossed for Ophiuchi.
I loved the image; when I first saw it (on one of the bat people's FB pages) I thought it was photoshopped.
Yay, a survivor!
Hi Meg!! I've missed seeing your videos, they always fill my heart with love. Ophiuchi is such a sweet gorgeous little girl. I love the picture of the celestial bat. Thank you for sharing the link!
Your sweet gentle voice calms them. Bless her little heart. Hope she is still alive and free out there. ❤❤❤
Dear, sweet girl. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗💋🇺🇸
Ophiuchi....poor sweetheart! Hoping that she continues to do okay and will thrive in your care. Thanks, Meg!🦇🤞😍
I’m so glad she’s doing well!! I just love a survivor!!! ❤️🦇❤️
She is so spacey and so beautiful!!! She is a diamond!!! I hope she' s recovering to come back to wild!!!
I think she's a longterm survivor but she has a way to go yet.
Oh, Meg, another triumph of naming! At first glance, I really thought they had superimposed a bat over the stars in that photo - it's an astounding image. May our girl live up to her name, and light up the night when she is well enough to fly free.
Meg my family and I have covid and need some of this treatment. But since we wouldn't want you to get sick we are watching your videos and hoping smiles and laughter are truly the best meds. She's a beauty and hope she will be ok. Thank you for the video Meg ❤🙏🦇
I hope you and yours recover soon, and all is well.🖤🇨🇦
Nooo, I hope you get better soon, all of you; with no horrible lingering side effects.
Feel better soon!
Thank you all for the well wishes... It truly stinks esp with my lingering health/autoimmune issues... We will take care of each other the best we can while enjoying these beauties ❤🦇🙏
@@katd367 It's scary when you don't know how Covid is going to affect you longterm
Awesome that she’s getting on! Thank you Meg for being our hands on the other side of the planet. The nebula photograph is beautiful and sooo batty, or at least bat like. Great addition to a great video. Thanks Meg, you are a wonderful evening routine!
Thanks Bill
"Bem-Aventurados os que cuidam das Criaturas do Senhor".🥀 Brasil
Thanks Tania
Oh goodness...the initial rescue footage had
"Ground control to Major Tom 🎵" playing in my head!
Fingers crossed for little Ophiuchi!
Lovely little girl
Ophiuchi already seems to be improving judging by the show of fang she's giving you later at home. I hope this is a marked sign of her getting better. The bat nebula is incredible. It looks just like a flying fox with the orange ruff. Glad I know now of its existence.
I really like your naming scheme for the flying foxes. Thank you for doing such a good job, the world needs more people like you!
It depends on whether the bat will stay with me or not, what kind of name I give it. The babies can be named anything, but if it's going to stay with me I tend to name it with a really special (to me) name. If the baby is moved along, I lose the name and the new carer often renames them something less outlandish. For instance, Crikey last year or the year before, was renamed George (seriously??).
I called one bat Tinuviel; she was a late night rescue a few years back, during the bushfires; the wind had come onshore and blown away the smoke haze, and for the first time an ages, I could see the sky and stars. Tinuviel means daughter of starry twilight... Tinuviel is from Tolkien's work.
So if it's an awesome name I like to keep it and use it for as long as possible.
With the adults, they don't stay with me for more than a day or 2, so I use a location as a memory tag; a variation on the place they were found, or something which reminds me of the location (and thus the rescue scenario and the bat's individual story).
@@Megabattie Tinuviel is verybeautiful
@@Megabattie Linda from Ontario Canada here. You have an unique gift for naming the bats.
My dog who sat like an amphibian was affectionately nicknamed Auggy doggy froggy dog when In the house. Outside we used her regular name that was nowhere near that.
@@maggiedhue9349 I'd have probably called her Froggy all the time. She sounds adorable
Sending healing thoughts
Catching up! A great day for me to watch videos of beloved bats! I’m so thankful to be able to!
God bless us, every one!
I’ve always thought bats were super cute but when i found your videos i absolutely fell in love with them. Thank you for showing how sweet they can be, wild bats and they’re just completely fine with you!
She's very young and probably terrified so she's very passive.
She'll wild up when she goes in with other bats.
Or she'll be disdainful of the human furless giant slaves.
Let's hope Ophiuchi keeps getting better 🦇. Meg you are an inspiration for all of us 🌈😃BTW The image in the sky is AMAZING. Thank you for sharing. Cheers🥂 from Silvana🇺🇾
I really liked the nebula, and immediately I added the name to my names list, for the right batty and the right situation.
The bats look so adorable! You are so sweet working with them. God bless for your kindness ❤
When I joined wildlife rescue to raise and care for parrot chicks in Spring, I didn't expect that I would somehow fall in love with bats (totally accidentally) and never rescue or raise parrots or possum joeys, but ending up rescuing bats exclusively.
They're endlessly fascinating and engaging.
She is gorgeous!🫠❤️🦇🇨🇦
Fingers crossed that all she did was knock herself into next week and that she starts to come around soon! 🤞And a wonderful name choice for her, and on so many levels to boot!
~Firefury - California
Meg, you are a cornucopia of knowledge! Now I'm learning about astronomy along with chiropterology.
I'm a cornucopia of snippets, which I collect eclectically according to whether I have a superficial interest in the word or concept or image.
Meg is a magpie. Or a Megpie
I love you creature,❤️❤️❤️
I have loved 🦇🦇🦇🦇🖤💖since I was lil... 🙏✨
Wow incredible work hats off to u such love and respect to the baby bat such dedication by u honoured to watch your videos all the time ❤❤❤❤
Thanks Amanda
Hang in there Ophiuchi. Hope you get to feeling better.
Hang in there? I see what you did there.
What a good girl!!! She is so darling. Those faces kill me. The micro bats not so much but those flying foxes are full of personality and cuteness overload.
Bats are such cute and amazing animals
The faucet works again!
-Ali, Colorado
she's a real cutie. 🥰
Ophiuchi is a beauty!!🦇 You are a Flying Fox/Bat Angel🤗💕 Your voice is so soothing, I instantly feel better! I have never been afraid of Bats, found them beautiful! You are a wonderful human & a giant slave to Bats/Flying Foxes😂🥰
I came to bats about 15 years ago, totally by accident when I joined wildlife rescue to raise parrot chicks in Spring. The rescue course gave little snippets of info on different animals - possums, birds, reptiles, bats... and I fell in love with the idea of bats then and did the bat course. The love for them individually came over a few years as I learned to handle them more confidently instead of being terrified of being bitten. I loved the babies instantly.
@@Megabattie What a lovely "accident" to have known Bats is where you wanted to be or where you needed to be. I bless you for ALL you do and for ALL you save 🥰
@@tracyjacoby2382 Totally serendipitous which are the best kind of accidents
She is so adorable 😍
Thank you. Cool name and the bat nebula is perfection.
What a cutie, they are so beautiful. Hello to Maggie, Meg there is a movie called Wolfhound and his companion is a flying fox. It was pretty cool.🦇🍁🇨🇦🌞🐘
Sounds interesting
I love the name, I love the story, and I hope she can tolerate those slaves providing the service 🤗
6:16 I love how she flirted with you there ;-)
Ahhh the little double wink…too cute.🖤🇨🇦
So you're an astronomer as well.
My goodness you're certainly someone of hidden depths.
I'm looking forward to all the other areas of secret expertise soon to be revealed.
No, but I'm a batty person and batty people find batty tings online and share it.
I just liked the whole bat nebula thing and the name Ophiuchi and since she was opposite the Star Casino, I thought it was a good name to air.
I love how you slap her in the scale.
She does looked dazed and so happy she’s a survivor. I love the names you give the survivors. I wonder if boys or girls are the more likely to survive. We found that in the NICU the girls were more likely to survive as their lungs, etc developed much sooner than the boys and they did much better with less drastic measures.
I give them names regardless of whether or not they survive.
I don't think there's a difference between male and female survival rates, though it's really interesting that there is a notable survival difference in premmies.
So beautiful
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Her eyes look so sad 😢 i pray she got better, poor baby. thank you meg ❤🦇✨️
Yes she got better; you can find more videos of her by searching in the YT search bar for Megabattie/Ophiuchi
@@Megabattie oh great news, thank you 💖🦇
Thanks Megabite for the Ophiuchus nebula link
Certainly is a bat in the stars.
Beautiful!!!
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9:26 same here! X
Well. Her name is amazing. And that is an awesome picture of the bat in the stars!
Wow so cuteeee
I hope she is a survivor and Meg avoided to he dreaded parking ticket.
Yes to both, though she's still wonky today (day 3) and not hanging happily.
As usual brilliant care and empathy! Zildjian is in good hands!!
Hey do you have any thoughts/expert advise w/regard to what medicine to administer topically or in food (like on nuts) for mange for small animals (like squirrels?) and if you’ve ever used ivermectin? I used to buy it on a website for squirrels but then Covid wiped ivermectin off the map… now it’s available at horse supply stores, but I’m not sure if ivermectin paste is better or gel … i’m you biggest fan (;)) but I’ve never seen anything like mange in. Flying foxes… but maybe I missed one.. thank you Meg!
Sorry, Tracy, but I have no expertise in ivermectin for squirrels. I use it for the bats but not for wild mobile animals. Contact your local wildlife groups to see if they have any suggestions.
Flying-foxes don't get mange.
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bats are adorable
Oh Meg, you are truly beautiful (though I know that you hate that!)
Did you see little Ophiuchus blink twice yes?
Great name by the way! It does look like a bat
H x
Yes, I saw her blink twice.
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Bats seem to be unphased by being poked with needles..I've seen 4 or 5 videos so far where the bats are given one shot or another, or giving blood & not a single one of them even flinch. Impressive...
Ah, that's because I am really good; LOL, I lie. They have no fear of needles because they don't know what they are. They have no mother tensing up whenever the doctor is giving their baby a needle, so they don't have the learned behaviour and the mother's fear to influence them. They also have very sharp claws and they often snag themselves with their own claws.
They don't like it if there's glucose in the subcut injection because it stings a bit.
But otherwise I have very fine needles and they don't seem to notice
A bit of a figgy pooh😂
Poor thing. I think I prefer it when they're more noisy!
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Ophiuchi, is astronomy a side interest, me also, but you beat me on this one.Do you think she is out of danger? Also I laugh because while your examining her, I am looking at things to watch for.It made me chuckle cause I felt like one of your interns at a school for rescues.Thankyou Meg.💜🐾❤️😎 USA
I have people second guessing me now from what they've learnt from my videos; I can cope with that but not if they make suggestions as to what I should be looking for,
@@Megabattie Believe me Meg, everything I formally about batties, I've learned from you.I have a gift for knowing when to keep eyes open mouth shut.lol 💜🐾❤️😎USA
good to know
Lil pacitto
She is a young bat,,,I can see the word, just can’t pronounce it! Looked it up….OMG that is a cosmic bat, lol ,,,,,you certainly do come up with out of this world names😀 Hoping Ophiuchi makes a full recovery 💜🦇Tobey from Phoenix 🌞🌵
Oh-fee-OOOH-key (or Kye rather than Key on the end).
You know you can google how to pronounce things? I use the pronunciation thing all the time.
@@Megabattie of course google, didn’t think about it….thanks Meg!
@@francesfarmer736 I just google pronunciation of whatever, and there is usually a little YT vid telling you how to say it.
@@Megabattie oh,,, ok 👍
I had no hope of guessing the origins of this one’s name.
I haven’t noticed before, but when you collected her, her wings were really wrinkly. Is that a normal thing or was it dehydration?
She has a fungal wing infection and she has swelling on her left wing mid patagium to trailing edge.
Hi, Meg 😃
What do you give them for pain? What's in the small red-capped syringe?
Hi Denise, I don't discuss analgesia on the channel - it opens a can of worms among the FF carers as tho whose vet will give it to them and whose won't, and as to whether or not it is an appropriate drug (usually brought up by people who can't get this drug for their bats). It's easier to just not discuss it.
This is not a "how to" video for carers.
Ophiuchi star bat
Awesome name, eh?
Only 8 more sleeps till Tolga
@@Megabattie It is reminiscent of the Star Child scene at the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey
@@paulg3336 Sorry, didn't watch Space Odyssey so can't comment either way
Hah, another one who peed when the water was running.
Those grapes are expensive. If I didn't live at the other end of the world, I'd deliver my home-grown grapes to you.
Juice?
A quick question, Meg, if you don't mind. Do you use Hartmann's, normal saline, or some other BSS to rehydrate? Many thanks!
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How do you pronounce his name?
Oh-fee-YOU-key or Oh-fee-YOU-kye
If I was there I'd give you a nickel to settle your account
LOL. SHe's gone through more grapes overnight.
@@Megabattie if I lived there and could afford it I would by a large tract of land in Sydney near a colony and turn it into a bat haven. Plant their favorite foods set it up so they had a safe place to feed and put up feeding stations so I could leave them food when things are scarce.
I take she is feeling better then?
@@roxannesharbono994 She's not hanging brilliantly so I've put her back to bed.