What’s cuter than a newborn bat wrapped in a blanket? A veterinary clinic full of orphaned newborn bats wrapped in baby blankets, that’s what. The Australian Bat Clinic & Wildlife Trauma Centre in eastern Australia’s Gold Coast Hinterland accepts newborn bats (called ‘pups’) whose mothers have died, as well as adult bats suffering from mites and other bat ailments.
They don’t just wrap baby blankets around the little bat pups for show; if the young bats are orphaned, they don’t have their mothers’ wings to keep them warm, so these blankets are the next best thing.
If any of our readers think bats are scary or evil, we hope these photographs and videos may persuade them otherwise! If not, visit the Tolga Bat Hospital in north-eastern Australia to see the adorable tiny bats. There are around 100 different species of bats in Australia, with between 25 and 30 of them living in the area where the Australian Bat Clinic is located.
Images above belong to Australian Bat Clinic.
