Wrapped up in their tiny blankets, the bundles of woe pictured below are surviving on the milk of human kindness.
The orphaned baby fruit bats are being raised at a rescue centre after a plague of poisonous ticks swept through their colony.
Used to snuggling up to their mothers, they need to be kept warm and are fed through teats with a sugary liquid full of nutrients.
Normally adults carry their baby on their back but as those which have been infected slowly die, the youngsters, with no mother to feed them, also perish.
“We walk around the bat colony in the Bush every day and you can hear the young bats crying for their mothers,” said Jenny Maclean, who runs the rescue centre on the Atherton Tablelands in northern Queensland.
Link: The Daily Mail Online.
The girl is way cuter than the bats. Should just post her holding assorted creatures.
The baby bats are adorable! I’m so glad they were rescued!
Who would think that bats could look so cute?
I want
I absolutely adore bats and to see these adorable faces is such a treat. Keep up the great work keeping the species as save as humanly possible.
Oh my lord, those babies are adorable XD
I read the caption and scrolled down and the adorableness of the second picture hit me in the face.
<3 Very compassionate.
Adorable little bats!
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The only time bats have been cute other than in Fern Gully of course. http://snuzzy.com/snuggly-baby-bats/
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i want one! baby bats are absolutely adorable! :)
Not only are they adorable, but they are important for our survival as well. They not only eat thousands of pounds of pesky insects a night, they are responsible for pollinating bananas, mangoes, agave, cashews and many other plants. They are also extremely vulnerable to extinction because they are the slowest reproducing mammals on earth for their size, so GREAT WORK on the rescue! KUDOS!!!
bats are so cute
insanely cute rescued baby fruit bats: http://snuzzy.com/snuggly-baby-bats/
The past of Batman …lol
Nice baby bats
The bats are prescious. We had some bats living in the game room of our house up in the rafters. I was a little nervous about them, but not anymore.
that is so lovely to have the bats taken care of!
Snuggly Baby Bats: http://snuzzy.com/snuggly-baby-bats/ “bundles of woe” adorable + kindness overload. you’ve been warned.
Disgustingly cute. Head exploded again. RT @ghostpressbed Snuggly Baby Bats: http://snuzzy.com/snuggly-baby-bats/ you’ve been warned.
Weird…
how utterly adorable! I love bats and it warms my heart to know these lil guys will have a chance at survival. Great photos!
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aawww how cute!!! I have raised 7 baby grey-headed flying foxes that have been successfully released!!! Thanks to Wildlife ARC on the Central coast!! I had 4 at one time this photo brings back many fabulous memories!!