Baby Australian Fruit Bats
Usually when we talk about baby animals on this site we just mean some new born animals in their normal habitat or maybe in a zoo. We don’t mean animals that are dressed up like actual human babies complete with swaddle blankets and milk bottles. But it looks like these fruit bats got the full treatment. Some of the mothers of these young bats died due to a plague of poisonous ticks and some of the others where rescued after a particularly rough storm in Australia. In the rescue/conservation center they are well taken care of and will soon be on their way to adult bat world.
Fruit bats, also called flying foxes and megabats, are the largest types of bats. Some Australian species can have a wingspan of 3 ft (1 m) or more when full grown and the World’s Largest Flying Fox/Fruit Bat from the Philippines can have wingspan of 5 ft (1.5 m).
