It's blissfully and painfully Q here at the moment. No rescues and nothing to put up, but hey, if you say the Q word out loud it becomes busy and insane and we're all waiting for the other shoe to drop and have our world explode into insanity again.
Precious Monte,🩶 Cocos,🖤 Zetl🩶and Patootie,🖤 all baby Bats rescued by your wonderful self Meg!💕💕 All helping themselves to your all you can eat fruit bar.🥰
Well there's a new verb - "to grape". I must remember this when I grape at night (fruit of the vine) in bubbles form. The batties have both no sense of personal boundaries and a marked territorial imperative. The Little Reds in particular like to get up close and personal with each other but are perfectly happy to squabble and fight for food. They like to sniff the butts of new batties in the aviary (meet and greet sniffies) and get very personal during this ritual, but the babies are like puppies and are perfectly happy to climb onto mum's face with their leaky bits over her eyes, poke thumb claws into personal delicate bits, and generally have no respect for any propriety, and in groups of babies they will often tangle together and climb over each other. When they hang though, they usually keep one body space apart
Yes hearing the nom noms louder and more clearly is fab. What I love best is the stealthy nom noms; when a bat refuses to eat for you so you leave some in the cage and cover them, and you hear the quiet stealthy nom noms behind the cover. It makes me laugh every time, but quiet stealthy laughs so as not to ruin the ambience
I don't remember this darling group - lovely to hear the appreciative lip smacking eating, and see them now. 3:40 awwww asleep, head first in the food tray ❤🦇🇨🇦
Uh=oh! Looks like Cocos is doing a POTTIE in that bowl; what a comedian! Could it be . . . all of that PALM food?? And Zetl gone all octopussy on you!!
Awww the bed-n-breakfast (and sometimes breakfast-turns-into-bed in Cocos case) noms. 🥰 I love the pleasantly plump tummies and determination to still be able to find just a litttttllle bit more room for a tinyyy bit more despite being near a Food Coma GCS of 3. lol
They can actually fit quite a lot in because their gut transit time is really short (can be 20 minutes mouth to butt), and their kidneys don't concentrate the urine so it gets evacuated quickly as well, which means evacuation from both orifices is rapid, leaving space for more and more. It's a life adaptation to fuel their voracious metabolic needs for flight.
@@joerudnik9290 Oh yes, that's the entire point - no fibre to go through their gut, lighter for flying, and the fast pee time as well, ditto. Flight needs a lot of fuel, so the high calorie high, sugars diet is a quick source of energy, like hummingbirds.
@@Megabattie that makes sense now that you say it! Given their fruity/juicy diet and that going by how they chew/mash with their tongues and that they've got to stay light as possible for flight I don't think they'd be digesting a lot of fibre either? So they'd have to have a quite short digestive tract and I'm guessing nothing like a caecum? Otherwise they'd give themselves some funky imbalances with the sugar and stasis or such? But it seems like the intestines would somehow have to have to have a biggish size compare to their overall body or super efficiency for enough surface to absorb everything quickly before it hits the exit as poo. How cool to think about!
Sorry... another thought, is that (designed for short time from ingestion to poo/probably lowish fibre content vs whatever critters evolved to eat cocos palms probably having more complex stomachs or even ruminants?) why the cocos palm fruit are so bad for them?
Meg I couldn't help laughing when you said "why does everybody find it necessary to wipe their bums all over me!"😂😂 Sorry if I misquoted you but you can say that and actually mean it!💕💕
Hi Luminosity Welcome to Megabattie, I'm Meg I put lots of information in the descriptions under the videos - so if you have questions, look for the answers there first. I also put the fate of the animal if I know it, at the time I put the video up. I may put updates there later if I find out what happened to the animal after it has left my care. There is also a Happy Outcomes playlist if you want to only watch videos where the bat survives; this is a real life channel and you get the good, the bad, the ugly and distressing, and even my oopsies. You can find further videos on an individual bat by searching in the YT search bar for Megabattie/and the name of the bat you want to follow. There is a community tab (like a mini Facebook page) on my channel - if you go to Megabattie home page, there is a menu bar across the top under the cover pic. Home, Videos, Playlists, Community, About. If you click on the community tab there are posts there where I can share pix and talk about some of the videos I put up and answer questions. I put up videos from Mandi and my rescue and care videos, so look to the title or description to figure out the context of the vids. Mandi doesn't rescue but she does a huge amount of rehabbing and has a lot of permanent care bats unable to be released for various reasons. She sends me the most amazing videos of her old retired bats in care; they've all got individual personalities and adorable quirks. Mandi lives 1200 kms away from me so I don't get to visit there often. I raise money for her on the videos. The rescue vids from my point of view are all mine, and if you hear me talking and see my hands in the videos doing bat care, then that's me too.
I never tire of the batties, or Megabattie and the league of carers. Always looking for more.
Falling asleep cradling juice and (future) jams feels like batty paradise.
The very bestest at Meg's restaurant and b&b. ❤🍁🦇🇨🇦🎃
I remember these batch of babies. They became stupefied by the sheer volume of fruit before them. Patootie was adorable.
The sheer volume of fruit that was all theirs and nobody could steal it from them...
Your memory lanes are absolute treasure troves of batty delight!
Thank you so much for sharing them with us ❤️🦇👍🏼
It's blissfully and painfully Q here at the moment. No rescues and nothing to put up, but hey, if you say the Q word out loud it becomes busy and insane and we're all waiting for the other shoe to drop and have our world explode into insanity again.
Precious Monte,🩶 Cocos,🖤 Zetl🩶and Patootie,🖤 all baby Bats rescued by your wonderful self Meg!💕💕 All helping themselves to your all you can eat fruit bar.🥰
Happy, sticky chomping batties are the best! ❤
2:06 I love how Coco is almost covering half of Monte’s face but he doesn’t care, and still continues to grape! 🍇
Well there's a new verb - "to grape". I must remember this when I grape at night (fruit of the vine) in bubbles form.
The batties have both no sense of personal boundaries and a marked territorial imperative. The Little Reds in particular like to get up close and personal with each other but are perfectly happy to squabble and fight for food.
They like to sniff the butts of new batties in the aviary (meet and greet sniffies) and get very personal during this ritual, but the babies are like puppies and are perfectly happy to climb onto mum's face with their leaky bits over her eyes, poke thumb claws into personal delicate bits, and generally have no respect for any propriety, and in groups of babies they will often tangle together and climb over each other. When they hang though, they usually keep one body space apart
They are so cute!❤❤❤❤❤
Ahh, grapes 🍇! Yes, it definitely looks like a success.
What a happy bunch of batties. They are so cute to watch! Megabattie you make a creative fruit buffet! 💗🦇🦇🦇🍇🥭😂
I was listening through earphones because of the noise outside my window. It's a whole new experience of hearing the nom noms.
Me too! Bless earbuds or earphones tuning out BS noises outside & we get to listen to these lovely NOM-NOMINGS!🎶🎶🤗
Yes hearing the nom noms louder and more clearly is fab. What I love best is the stealthy nom noms; when a bat refuses to eat for you so you leave some in the cage and cover them, and you hear the quiet stealthy nom noms behind the cover. It makes me laugh every time, but quiet stealthy laughs so as not to ruin the ambience
My jaw is aching, watching this! 😂
2:30 is hilarious
silly bats
My personal favorit is the "sleep with your head in the fruit bowl while hugging your dripper bottle " stunt.
That takes effort! 🤭🤭🤭🤭🦇❤️
I'd say it takes great talent to manage this and not make it look awkward.
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Battie heaven, where the ‘sweet’ angels are❣️❣️❣️❣️❤
Living their best fruit bat life, lying in a nice bed being fed grapes and figs like little batty emperors
Aww AND another fine day of juicy fruit and happyness with Meg and her crew. Love these guys. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for caring.
Watching them eat - NEVER gets boring! So cute!
It doesn't, does it? However watching adult humans eat can be a horrible experience.
Watch human toddlers eat can be entertaining if a bit disgusting.
I can't even imagine how sticky they (and their fur) must be after such a meal...
They groom themselves clean, or Maggie gives them a wipe over.
@@Megabattie You could say they are sweet both literally and metaphorically...
They´re crazy for fruits, hmm... They have the best life, recuperating their health.
Ah, more battie ASMR!
I love the babies!!
They are so cute, Patootie is a jewel!!
I don't remember this darling group - lovely to hear the appreciative lip smacking eating, and see them now.
3:40 awwww asleep, head first in the food tray ❤🦇🇨🇦
♥️🦇♥️🦇♥️
Que lindezas. Comendo bem😂😂❤❤
Uh=oh! Looks like Cocos is doing a POTTIE in that bowl; what a comedian! Could it be . . . all of that PALM food??
And Zetl gone all octopussy on you!!
No, he's head down in the bowl.
And this is days after he came into care.
Awwwww the Nom Noms 😍🥰
Awww the bed-n-breakfast (and sometimes breakfast-turns-into-bed in Cocos case) noms. 🥰 I love the pleasantly plump tummies and determination to still be able to find just a litttttllle bit more room for a tinyyy bit more despite being near a Food Coma GCS of 3. lol
They can actually fit quite a lot in because their gut transit time is really short (can be 20 minutes mouth to butt), and their kidneys don't concentrate the urine so it gets evacuated quickly as well, which means evacuation from both orifices is rapid, leaving space for more and more. It's a life adaptation to fuel their voracious metabolic needs for flight.
@@MegabattieSo interesting, probably makes them lighter for flight, also. However they must lose energy fast, like hummingbirds ❣️❣️❣️
@@joerudnik9290 Oh yes, that's the entire point - no fibre to go through their gut, lighter for flying, and the fast pee time as well, ditto.
Flight needs a lot of fuel, so the high calorie high, sugars diet is a quick source of energy, like hummingbirds.
@@Megabattie that makes sense now that you say it! Given their fruity/juicy diet and that going by how they chew/mash with their tongues and that they've got to stay light as possible for flight I don't think they'd be digesting a lot of fibre either? So they'd have to have a quite short digestive tract and I'm guessing nothing like a caecum? Otherwise they'd give themselves some funky imbalances with the sugar and stasis or such? But it seems like the intestines would somehow have to have to have a biggish size compare to their overall body or super efficiency for enough surface to absorb everything quickly before it hits the exit as poo. How cool to think about!
Sorry... another thought, is that (designed for short time from ingestion to poo/probably lowish fibre content vs whatever critters evolved to eat cocos palms probably having more complex stomachs or even ruminants?) why the cocos palm fruit are so bad for them?
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Meg I couldn't help laughing when you said "why does everybody find it necessary to wipe their bums all over me!"😂😂 Sorry if I misquoted you but you can say that and actually mean it!💕💕
Yes I meant it and it was true; you hold them against you and they wipe their grubby butts on you; and the batty people say, guano happens
They are marking you in the most indelible way!!! You are theirs ❣️❣️❣️
@@joerudnik9290 I never thought about that, you are right!👍😂🦇💕
@@Megabattie 😂😂😂👍🦇🥰
Milk comas and now fruit comas
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“They’re just lounging in bed like teenagers” 🫠
Hi Luminosity
Welcome to Megabattie, I'm Meg
I put lots of information in the descriptions under the videos - so if you have questions, look for the answers there first. I also put the fate of the animal if I know it, at the time I put the video up. I may put updates there later if I find out what happened to the animal after it has left my care.
There is also a Happy Outcomes playlist if you want to only watch videos where the bat survives; this is a real life channel and you get the good, the bad, the ugly and distressing, and even my oopsies.
You can find further videos on an individual bat by searching in the YT search bar for Megabattie/and the name of the bat you want to follow.
There is a community tab (like a mini Facebook page) on my channel - if you go to Megabattie home page, there is a menu bar across the top under the cover pic. Home, Videos, Playlists, Community, About. If you click on the community tab there are posts there where I can share pix and talk about some of the videos I put up and answer questions.
I put up videos from Mandi and my rescue and care videos, so look to the title or description to figure out the context of the vids. Mandi doesn't rescue but she does a huge amount of rehabbing and has a lot of permanent care bats unable to be released for various reasons. She sends me the most amazing videos of her old retired bats in care; they've all got individual personalities and adorable quirks. Mandi lives 1200 kms away from me so I don't get to visit there often. I raise money for her on the videos.
The rescue vids from my point of view are all mine, and if you hear me talking and see my hands in the videos doing bat care, then that's me too.