Top Tips - Making Pool Noodles For a Bat Aviary - How To Put a Smile on a Bat Carer's Face!

What might you think pool noodles have to do with caring for bats or flying foxes?

Well rescuing and caring for orphaned or injured bats is quite seasonal. The busiest time of the year is after mating when the babies are born. Due to many causes, baby bats come into care between late September to February/March in Southeast Queensland.

Part of that rehabilitation process of these babies is for them to go to a 'creche aviary' once they are old and big enough. These are large enough for them to practice their flight and build up their muscles for when they are soon to be released.

And part of the adornment of such aviaries is...pool noodles. Covered in soft materials and hung from the ceiling of such aviaries, these provide something for the bats to climb up or along. Especially if they have gone to the floor for fallen food, or just had a 'poorly conceived' maiden flight, perhaps.

So at the beginning of the creche period, the pool noodles are all checked. And if in poor condition, the covers are replaced.

But, it is the process of covering these new noodles, with their rather tight sleeves, that is often a source of great amusement to the carers involved.

And you can see they don't get out much...!!!

PS. The people in this video preferred not to be named...But you know who you are. Lol!

MORE ABOUT FLYING FOXES:

Despite the 'bad press' flying foxes have (not helped by Hollywood and images of terrifying blood-sucking bats!) they are adorable sentient creatures and the most amazing flying mammals.

In fact, they are the largest flying Australian mammal and the only mammal in Australia that is the closest genetically to humans - go figure! Maybe we were meant to fly but flying foxes beat us to it!

If you would like to help with their care, then make a difference and consider donating to your local wildlife group.

Or, if you are a resident of South East Queensland, then you could use the link: https://batrescue.org.au/donate/

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