#spectacledflyingfox

Spectacled Flying Fox - Explored! by myrontay https://flic.kr/p/QaU74S

After a dinner of mango, watermelon and more fruits, Chino flips upside down to pee or poop, which happens pretty quickly after eating. Then she wiggles her bottom to shake off. I love watching this after eating activity. This young #SpectacledFlyingFox also is wrapped up while bottle fed several times a day, finishing the bottle and then sucking the rubber of the bottle while falling asleep with the bottle nub still in her mouth. Younger ones are comforted with dummies- pacifiers. Chino enjoys hugging a stuffed animal toy, belly and head rubs. She will transition to a cage, then an out door aviary, then back to the tree area and the colony she was found. #Rescue #Rehabilitation #indigenousSpecies #endanger due to #HabitatLoss #GuggheimFellowshipProject @guggfellows (at Cairns, Queensland, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_lR8QAtoG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dpkmhi7025mz

Chino, 5 week old rescue being bottled feed, snuggled in a wrap as he would be under his mom’s wing arm. Rescues need frequent feedings. The combination of looking for rescues and then caring for them medically is demanding. Yesterday I occupied Kim to search for wallabies in need of rescues- all were dead on the side of the road, I lost count, the mother and child one was an extreme sight, all hit by cars, not on a highway but in residential areas. Then there were the found bats, none alive. This rescue search is done everyday by a community of dedicated compassionate caretakers. Certainly challenging is also balancing a job and do the search and maintaining care. I am grateful to accompany Kim on her rescue work and witness her Stamina to loss, dedication and work feeding and cleaning. #SpectacledFlyingFox #rescue #FruitEaters @guggfellows #GuggheimFellowshipProject (at Cairns, Queensland, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br8UkHDAxgO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g1czlvsxj8kp