In Mandi's aviary: new little rescue Delilah with King Richard.
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- I have some footage from Mandi with Delilah, a little Grey juvie who was cut off barbed wire by a MOP, snuggling up to King Richard who is still in the hospital cages but doing really well in recovering from the paralysis syndrome. Delilah loves to snuggle King Richard, however food trumps even her own personal hot water bottle, and she's delighted by the abundance of the buffet.
I added more footage some of you may already have seen recently to the end of the video to give more people a chance to view.
Mandi has sent me some little cameos of Cinders getting her bum and shoulders scratched and massaged.
Cinders and Gelert watch on while Mandi is checking out King Richard.
A cameo of Steve (raptor attack) a toothless old boy enjoying the burst of flavour from a drink of Ribena).
There is some footage from last year of Stan, a Little Red Flying-Fox who suffered and beat the Paralysis Syndrome.
And Eli, the partner of a batty person Becky and a policeman, used his long arm of the law to catch a rooster dumped near a busy road to save him from being skittled in the future. Naturally, being batty people and friends of Mandi, the newly named rooster Hobo, has ended up with Mandi. Einstein is in awe of the handsome new rooster who is a tough guy able to take care of himself, who proved himself by catching and dispatching a rat in the farmyard. Hero worship at its best and worst...
Enjoy.
Paralysis Syndrome affects adults in Northern NSW and SE Queensland and predominantly adult males.
Mandi says:
Nobody quite knows why bats get paralysis syndrome.
When I first saw it I thought it looked like the bats we used to see years ago attributing their presentation (in Sydney) to cocos palm toxicity.
Various theories have been floated, some sort of toxicity, botulism, African tulip tree, cocos palm (foxtail palm date palm), but nothing has returned conclusive. Everyone seems to have their own personal theory.
Blood tests of compromised bats show they have elevated sodium chloride levels and low potassium and calcium.
Treatment is fluids with potassium, supportive care, calcium supplements.
Bats are generally male, often it seems to be an acute assault - they are in good nutritional condition, well groomed but found hanging low, unable to climb. The one common sign is their tongue tip protruding from their mouth, plus low body temp and not blinking.
Some bats survive, others never recover. (Toomey was a paralysis bat who survived)
Usually takes about a week for the bat to show slight improvement, and a month or so before they are able to hang.
Intensive care with fluid therapy, applying eye drops, encouraging the bat to urinate (physically hold the bat in inverting position & stimulate to toilet as you do a baby).
When they start to eat the tongue is often uncooperative, lolls to one side and they can’t squish the fruit or form spats. I’ve found by putting food in thru mouth and encouraging chewing (or sucking) seems to help, but each piece of fruit has to be removed and another placed in there or they lie with the fruit in their mouth for hours.
They often make a full recovery but need monitoring for a few weeks after recovery as they are prone to crashing again with no preamble.
Seems to affect BFF, GHFF and LRFF, mainly adult males but some adult females have come into care.
Doesn’t seem to occur in pockets /suburbs but seems to occur in batches, a bunch come in and then nothing for a while.
Haven’t discovered if it’s seasonal (have noticed it does occur when African tulip tree is flowering, and 2 bats actually had African tulip tree - or black bean leaves - in their mouths on admission).
The bats tend to accept help readily and are perfect patients - although many systematically remove IV lines so makes it hard to keep them hydrated without daily subcut injections.
Thanks Mandi for the footage.
This footage is given in thanks for the continuing donations which help support the fruit costs for her bats.
Tolga Bat Hospital takes donations for Mandi.
tolgabathospit...
Mention Megabattie or Meg in the PayPal message box and the money will find its way to Mandi
If no message box appears, please email Jenny to tell her that the money is for Mandi.
IMPORTANT: If you pay through the PayPal Giving Fund, can you please email Jenny with the AMOUNT DONATED and the name under which you have donated, OR just forward along the PP receipt. If you specify the amount donated, it makes it heaps easier for Jenny to find the donation.
The Giving Fund doesn’t charge any fees (so the bats get more money) but PP doesn’t itemise out the amount, they just send a total every month, and we don’t know if the money is for Tolga or for Megabattie.
Here’s Jenny’s email.
jenny@tolgabathospital.org
I never thought a bat could smile until that bum scratch. Adorable. More good news with King Richard. They all look contented and happy.
Hello little one's, 😊😊❤❤🦇🦇
I love watching them eat. Make me smile.
Would love for them to be able to tell us how they're doing, such sweet eyes.
Oh, this video just makes my heart so happy! I’m so happy seeing King Richard doing so much better and Delilah gets around pretty good considering her injuries. I hope they continue to progress. They’re so beautiful and deserve a chance to live. Just love the upside down. Nom noms 💕💕💕💕
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Far Too Adorable. Cinders is loving her bum scritch. Im.glad KR is starting to recover. I love them all, thank you Mandi, Meg and batty team ❤❤❤❤❤
When King Richard and Delilah were snuggled together, I couldn't help but remember Walter with little Q. The older males are really like kindly grandfathers, looking out and teaching the babies in The Way of the Bat.
Some are; some distance themselves from the little one and say - NOT MY KID, and you can't prove it even if it is.
Love these Mandi aviary updates!
I love Mandi updates as well
Good luck to King Richard on his tricky recovery🤞💕👍🦇
Happy Batty Nom-noms = Batty ASMR. Love it!
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Love battie personalities!!!😍❤️🦇🇨🇦
Cinders in her most comfortable scratchy position!🥰🥰🥰
And good to see everyone’s favourite old dudes!!😁😁😁
Great way to end my day. Love the older Batties
Old Steve. I want to pet his face. That nose. ❤😂 Cinder getting pets. My heart melted.
I NEVER get tired of seeing ALL the precious Animals in Mandi's Sanctuary! The look on Cinders face when Mandi scratched her bum!🩶🦇🤗💕 Watching Einstein admiring Hobo the recued Rooster was so heartwarming!🩶🤍💕🐓🥰
So happy King Richard is improving and that he got a friend. They both eat which I love to see. This is a good day
Old Steve looks like a miniature brown bear!
Yes!!🐻
Just love fruit nom noms in Mandi's Aviary! 😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️
Oh i love bats thy are just beautiful creatures ❤❤❤ beautiful gorgeous little faces.
I think I'm in love with King Richard, the cutest nom noms, and an amazing improvement from how he was. Love the roosters too ❤
Meg a guestion, is Steve a spectacled bat, or something different , all of them most enjoyable. ❣️🍁🦇🇨🇦
No, Steve is a Black Flying-Fox; he has malnutrition rings around his eyes; malnutrition causes discoloured and dry wiry fur usually around their eyes and on their face.
Hi Meg an fur babies so lovely,sending lv Ann uk❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Nothing clears a bad day from my mind better than bat nom noms. Just can’t help but smile.
Agreed, I like to save Meg's videos for dessert at the end of the day.
Delilah has adorable spunk. It is so indescribable to find myself newly and wonderfully awed by these beautiful beings, BATS. Thank You for all that you do and sharing.
Welcome to Megabattie, Linda,
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.
Meg
It’s heartwarming to see all the batties, especially his highness getting better and better, that’s what lots of TLC does ❤
HRH King Richard is looking quite regal, trying to maintain his dignity with a little cutie cuddling up to him. So happy to see everyone doing better.
One baby to tell it is safe reminds me of Tigger in whinnie the pooh all wrapped up
Do you mean Roo, Kanga’s baby? Iirc, Tigger was always full grown.
Yum yum the nom noms😂..❤️🦇🦇🦇🦇
Food!! Glorious FOOD!! I love watching bats eat! They are so cute when they eat... Would not want anyone I know to eat this way, but bats... that is a whole level of cuteness!
Agree
Such beautiful care at Mandi's. Teddy is all clean and shiny. King Richard so polite with that first treat.
His Highny is getting better😂 Wonderful to see😊❤
Love these guys. ❤❤❤
Awww love them!
Hmm, this Delilah reminds me, in her manners, of ANOTHER Delilah, who cut Samson's luscious locks, while he slept. Will this Delilah scamp learn her lesson?? Nope(Laughs!!)!! But Ritchie and the other gent definitely know theirs.
I be hornswoggled if Cinders doesn't smile like dogs do, when she's happy!!
Thank you for all the info about the paralyses and especially the vid of king r. great to see he is doing so much better. You all are doing a wonderful job! Thank you.
Eyes on the prize eh, Delilah! King Richard clearly loves being waited on like the monarch he is. Loads of magical fruit nomming - why is it so soothing to watch bats eat fruit and it's completely annoying when humans do it?
I'm surprised released bats don't fly into super markets to get more of these fruits rofl
Their native wild diet suits them better and nothing beats blossom and pollen.
If they have their fave in care fruits and you put in some fresh blossom dripping with nectar and pollen, they will go for the blossom every time and abandon their previous fave fruits.
Rainforest and native fruits have a high level of protein in them than our cultivated for sweetness and human taste high sugar fruits.
That's why we give them predominantly apple and pear; they're less sweet and have higher protein levels than the soft sweet melons grapes and stone fruits.
The paralysis syndrome with bats reminds me of Guillain Barre syndrome in humans, attributed to several causes including the Zika virus. Almost all individual affected recover with complete rest and support. The great fortune of King Richard is Megabattie recognizing the syndrome, the strong possibility for recovery and a full life with the time and support required. Megabattie and carers provide information and education that saves lives.
Hi Anne
I have nothing to do with the paralysis syndrome and its care; I live 1200 kms away from Mandi, and we don't have paralysis syndrome here in NSW.
Mandi recognises the symptoms because it's fairly obvious when the bat is paralysed and the big males are usually affected. She has had him in care for about a month now and has taken him through the first difficult weeks when he could barely swallow, trained him to swallow again and stimulated him, kept putting his tongue in the right position and cleaned out his mouth when he couldn't form a spat to spit out what he was able to chew, until he was managing to eat for himself.
Mandi deserves all the kudos.
They seem so good natured. They don't seem overly afraid, even when you first get to them. It's like they know you are helping them. Is it a problem in the wild, that they are not super afraid of humans? It seems like it could be an issue for them to not be more afraid. Like do people try and touch/catch them? Thanks for sharing these awesome videos with us!
Tanya, they're wild animals and will fight tooth and nail to not be captured (and the mums will fight you if you threaten their babies). They bite hard and they don't like to let go.
However, they're socially intelligent and read body language and see that you're trying to help them, so they rapidly tame down enough for you to handle them (not with their whole hearted cooperation, but with a limited degree of passivity).
The paralysis bats aren't able to fight back and by the time they are they can see your intent and how you've cared for them and allow this to continue but once they're independent they're less cooperative.
Mandi has a lot of permanent care bats - the old dudes Cinders, Gelert, Teddy and Zena and I think she's still got Helen. These bats have been in care their entire lives and were handraised. (Except Zena and Helen). They can't fly and can't be released so they treat Mandi like their slave, their protector, their mother and the purveyor of cuddles and scritches and food and all things good.
If people just walk up to a bat on teh ground and try to catch it, they get bitten or shredded.
People, in general, don't come into contact with bats because bats are canopy dwellers and like to be high; humans only intersect with bats if the bat has been brought to the ground for some reason and they will fight you if they can to not be captured.
To think I used to get told off as a child for chewing with my mouth open...
It's not cute in humans.
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Megan deberías de subir un en vivo
No hago transmisión en vivo
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surprised the roosters at the end don't fight with the wild rooster, polish are my favorite breed of pet chicken
THere is plenty of territory and plenty of girls for all the roosters.
Fruit always sounds SO delicious in the mouths of fruit bats.
Well it almost makes me want to eat fruit (but not enough to actually eat it, unless it's fruit of the vine, fermented with bubbles)
I simply had to re-watch this video, it makes my heart feel so good!🤗💕💕 Thanks Meg for sharing scenes from Mandi's Haven for beautiful Animals!🩶♥️🤓🦇🐓🥰
We're all just so lucky that Mandi chooses to send the videos so I can upload them and we can all enjoy them.
I really appreciate Delilah’s gusto! As soon as she saw you coming, she came clambering out to greet…
that bowl of fruit. With her face!
That little face...
Approximately how long has the paralysis been lasting in care?
What a horrible way to die for the unlucky ones. I assume they eventually starve to death? 😓
Happy to see the King is recovering thanks to Mandi & whomever found him😊
The paralysis lasts as long as it lasts; Richard has been in care for just over a month in this video and still isn't ready to hang out in the aviary.
Great vid thanks for sharing. Please every watcher watch the whole video and all the full ads, like, subscribe and leave a 4+ word comment to help the bats. Thankyou.
Meg said that we only have to let the ads run for 30 seconds. I’ll let them run longer while I’m reading the description, and comments.
I can't understand why barbed wire is legal anywhere.
Because it's historical and because until recently nobody has complained about it.
There are probably millions of kilometres of it which have been in place for a hundred years. The farmers like it because it keeps the cattle in.
Until probably this century nobody complained about it.
It used to be everwhere in the UK, but not so prevalent now. Horrible, cruel stuff.
Can any of the elder bats fly?
Cinders doesn't have enough wing membrane after she was burnt when her mum was electrocuted.
Gelert has never flown because his bones are too soft.
Teddy - I don't know his story but he was handraised and was an education animal in his youth so I supposed he never flew for some reason or other. (education animals are chosen from ones who can't be released).
Zena was a wild girl and has flown but came in after barbed wire injuries and malnutrition; I doubt she flies now.
Cinders and Gelert love Mandi so much, Steve and Stan are so cute poor little ones!! : raptor attack is a shock for a bat(i think) Finally we have Einstein, a rebel rooster, i remember Mandi saying: Don' t be mean!!!
1:40 That gratuitous slow-mo! 😅
I like to watch the slowmo of them doing their stuff
@@Megabattie lol, it's like megabattie porn.
You just wonder how they swallow upside down 😅
52+ million years of practice! 😊
They have slightly altered pharyngeal anatomy to facilitate getting the food into their throat, but after that the peristalsis kicks in; the oesophageal walls are muscular and push the food down.
Only took us 5 days to rescue Hobo. 😂
Hi Becky, thanks for getting Eli's long arm of the law onto the job. Awesome work catching a rooster.
Next time - more footage please; love to share this stuff.
Job well done and another feisty rooster for Mandi.