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Lil’ Drac the Baby Bat

January 22, 2012 at 1:38 PM Leave a comment

Here is a darling story about a baby bat — Lil’ Drac — who was hand-raised after his mother rejected him:

Lil’ Drac is an orphaned short tailed fruit bat (Carollia perspicillata). His mother was yet another casualty from zoo closures which are occurring across the US. Sheis a young mother who was stressed from the conditions in which she was kept, combined with the additional trauma of being captured and transferred to a new and unfamiliar environment. Consequently, she abandoned Lil’ Drac after he was born. He was found on the padded floor of the indoor flight enclosure at Bat World Sanctuary, curled up in a little ball.

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Via Bat World Sanctuary Inc.

I love how he likes to rock himself.

Entry filed under: Animals (Other Than Us). Tags: baby bat, bat world.