I found a bat yesterday.

Jul 27, 2016 2:31 PM

My better half called, and said she'd found a bat on the steps behind our house, cooking in the sun. He didn't look too good.

He didn't move much when I picked him up. I used one of my winter gloves just in case.

I grabbed a bottle of water and poked a hole in the top of it. I figured he might be thirsty, and was right. He drank quite a few drops.

He looked quite a bit better and was moving around much more, so I took him to the woods and put him on a tree branch.

Just look at that smile!

awesome

I am the night

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Going from no eyes to Buscemi eyes is an improvement, I suppose.

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"Let's handle a rabies vector species with thin gloves instead of calling professional" Bold move, Cotton

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Be nice to the flying rat

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they said they used winter gloves so I imagine they're thicker than 4mm. I doubt a fruit bat can bite through gloves that thick.

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A fruit bat might be able to, but this is definitely not a fruit bat. Little guy most likely eats bugs. Fruit bats are huge and tropical

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bats around me feed off mostly fruit and bugs, I just call em fruit bats. Still I doubt this one can bite through the glove or w/e.

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It's irrelevant. There are people trained to handle species like this. Releasing it w/out proper care is certain death

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That's true, but my professor would have said "if it was dying, it was dying for a reason. Let nature do its thing." *

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