Megabattie

Rescuing Shooey, a flying-fox stuck on a balcony.

Shooey is a juvenile male Grey-Headed Flying-Fox on the cusp of adulthood. He's just starting to get his big boy stink and thickening genitals. He was found on an apartment block walkway corridor kind of balcony, crouching on a shoe rack (as you do when there's no better place to hang out). Enclosed spaces with nowhere to climb out, and no manoeuvring room are traps for the batties, and are quite common rescue scenarios. He was an easy catch, clinging onto a shoe with nowhere to go. He's passive but alert, and not aggressive as is often the case with the juveniles until they feel confident enough to start asserting their batty mojo, thought I think he's actually not as well as he's pretending to be. So let's see how he goes over the next few days. I've decided the perfect name for a batty found on a shoe is Shooey, which is, coincidentally, also the perfect name for a shoe shine fairy (which are endangered species, and very very rare in Australia)... Tolga Bat Hospital takes donations for our batties. Tolga is an awesome place in Far North Queensland, which has charity status. By sending donations to them, they get a percentage (and deserve every cent) and they can allocate money to me for batty expenses without it becoming part of my income stream (which makes tax time difficult). https://tolgabathospital.org/donate/ Mention Megabattie or Meg in the PayPal message box and the money will find its way to me. If no message box appears, please email Jenny to tell her that the money is for me. IMPORTANT: If you pay through the PayPal Giving Fund, can you please email Jenny with the AMOUNT DONATED and the name under which you have donated, OR just forward along the PP receipt. The Giving Fund doesn’t charge any fees (so the bats get more money) but PP doesn’t itemise out the amount, they just send a total every month, and we don’t know if the money is for Tolga or for Megabattie. Here’s Jenny’s email. [email protected]