Rescues: Maddie
22 August 2004 10:30![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denMaddie has become amazingly wild. Usually the bats maintain a level of accepting grumpyness where they are happy to see me, or rather the food, but growl and grumble while they crawl around my hand snuffling for food.
Maddie hunches up in whatever corner she is roosting in and growls. If my fingers get too close, she leaps at them and tries to bite. I have to wear latex gloves near her. To help a bat find the food I usually hunt it by touching it on the bum so they move forward. With Maddie I point at her face and she leaps at my finger. We continue like this until she has frog-hopped to the food.
She's ready to go, but the nights are still too cool. When we start seeing +10C night temperatures I'll hang the tent outside and leave it open.
Maddie hunches up in whatever corner she is roosting in and growls. If my fingers get too close, she leaps at them and tries to bite. I have to wear latex gloves near her. To help a bat find the food I usually hunt it by touching it on the bum so they move forward. With Maddie I point at her face and she leaps at my finger. We continue like this until she has frog-hopped to the food.
She's ready to go, but the nights are still too cool. When we start seeing +10C night temperatures I'll hang the tent outside and leave it open.
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Re: dumb question
Date: 22 Aug 2004 00:08 (UTC)"Microbat" and "Megabat" are misleading. Microbats like Ghost Bats and larger than megabats like blossom bats. In fact, Ghost bats are carnivores that actively prey on the smaller bats. Generally, megabats eat fruit, nectar and pollin, and microbats don't.
Microbats can be insectivores, carnivores, piscavores and sanguivores. which is cool
Re: dumb question
Date: 22 Aug 2004 00:34 (UTC)Re: dumb question
Date: 22 Aug 2004 01:27 (UTC)Re: dumb question
Date: 22 Aug 2004 02:09 (UTC)