Forward from another list. Check out the final photo of
rescued bats. (I'm sending this a second time because it originally
contained an attachment.)
Mark Minton
From NBC Nightly News this evening --
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/07/5785212-widespread-australian-floods-displace-residents-wildlife
It's not only humans who are suffering due to the recent floods in
Australia. Australian Bat Clinic and Wildlife Trauma Centre director
Trish Wimberley and her carers have helped save 130 orphaned bats on
the Gold Coast in past weeks. They saved 350 young bats during the
2008 storm season but this year think there's more going on than
just wild weather. Carers have visited several bat 'camps' on the
coast in recent weeks to find four-week-old babies on the ground
covered in maggots and fly eggs. Trish said: "They're coming down to
feed on the ground. That makes them vulnerable. It's not a natural
occurrence and shows there is trouble in the environment. "Bats are
a barometer to what is going on in the environment. They're our
canaries down the coal mine". The surviving youngsters will be
bottle fed and kept either hanging on clothes lines or in special
intensive care units until they are ready to fly again in about four weeks.
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