Baby flying-foxes in care daily life: Guinness and Sequoia with Maggie

Guinness and Sequoia have some Maggie time, where Guinness has his gums rubbed because he’s teething at the back and wants something to soothe his gums. Sequoia just loves to be cuddled and stroked, and spends time licking sweat off Maggie’s fingers and having her lick button tickled. Our babies are growing up... When the hand raised babies are 3 months old, they go into a creche, where they join other orphans and form a group. At this stage they’d be separating from this batty mums and be becoming more independent in the colony. In creche, at this age, they learn batty etiquette and how to live in a batty society. They shrug off their human mums and want to be with the other batties. When they are emotionally and physically ready, and uninjured, and around 4-5 months old, they’re put into a release cage under a colony and they can integrate into the colony and fly out with the wild bats. If they can’t find enough food, they can always come back to the cage for a feed. Support