Animal Ambulance

[den]

I now have in a pouch on the heat pad in the tub a furry little Swamp Wallaby joey. He wieghs 500g and is so tiny and cute. He was found standing beside the body of his mum on the edge of the road. He appears to be uninjured but I'll take him to the vet tomorrow. Poor little bugger.

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[lonita.livejournal.com]

Can they survive without their mum?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

with warmth and fluids, and a stress free environment. How young they are will also determine the success of their rehab. This one is fully furred.

Awwwwwww

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

o/~ Oh, what a friend we have in Den, ... o/~

How could anything be stressed in your environs? :)

[annvole.livejournal.com]

Very cute! I like the third pic in that link you provided:

http://www.wiresnr.org/Karlos4sm.jpg

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

that's what my joey looks like.

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

Aren't they precious. I hope you give yourself a nice pat on the back once in awhile for the great job you do. Maybe someday you can publish somekind of pictorial with narrations on your adventures. No, seriously.

[breimh.livejournal.com]

They're so small...

How big are they, on average? We saw a few wallaroos at the zoo, yesterday, but they seemed to range about 1 to 1.5 meters. Is that usual?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Fully grown, a big male swampy is about 1m high but the females are smaller.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Very cute! Why does the phrase "pocket pal" come to mind?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

At this age they're pocket pals. When they grow up they're insane bastards.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

awww! Yet another joey for the growing rescue mafia!:D

[beki.livejournal.com]

Is he going to go to the same home that has the other Joey? Or do they seperate them out by species?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Same home. This will be 18 joeys H has to feed by hand, plus the heap outside that are off the bottle.

[beki.livejournal.com]

Off the bottle?? Makes them sound like a bunch of raving 'roo alcoholics.. No wonder they are called mobs.. You get rid of their bottle... :)

It's cool that you know he will be well taken care of tho.

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

I watched a program today on "zoo babies" for animals that are either abandoned or orphaned by their parents. It sounded like alot of the animals were from Australia, but I can't be sure. So you have any primates there (specifically gorillas) and there was the cutest huge mouse looking creature, kind of rolly polly with a blunt nose. I know that came from Australia, as well as the baby platapus they were nursing back to help. Really quite fascinating all the work the vets did for free for these creatures, and the rescuers too.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

We don't have wild primates, but all the zoos have at least 2 species. Taronga and Royal Melbourne do have gorillas.

Did you know baby monotremes (platypus and echidnas) are called "puggles" ?

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

Puggles? Oh my. The name sounds as cute as they look. I also got a big kick out of the marsupials. And the ones that stretch their skin to "fly" from tree to tree. As you can see, I am rather hooked on this particular station. Can't help it. Spent too much time in the wilderness in my lifetime. I was also surprised to learn that in a very sprarce part of the outback that the only thing that thrives there are the termites. Guess no one would want to put up a town in that area, even is they could get a water supply there. *grins*

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

There are several species of possum in the Glider family; the most famous are the greater glider, Sqirrel glider (http://images.google.com.au/images?hs=Lu5&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=squirrel%20glider&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wi), sugar glider and the <a href="http://images.google.com.au/images?q=feather-tailed%20glider&sourceid=mozilla-search&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi>feather-tailed glider.</a> I see a few here but they're usually so injured they die 8(

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

feather-tailed glider (http://images.google.com.au/images?q=feather-tailed%20glider&sourceid=mozilla-search&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi)

[ladyursus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pictorial. That was GREAT. And I recognized the one I saw as the squirrel glider. Didn't realize there were so many species!! Pretty interesting little critters. Look forward to seeing more of your posts. *grins*

[lijepanena.livejournal.com]

=) That must be where the Enchanted Forest got the names. I love Enchanted Forest.