Daily life in Mandi's aviary; Florentine and Zena give birth

[@lindaandrews5468]

Wow, a lot going on in Mandi's world. Thank you for saving the babies Mandi.

[@Megabattie]

Mandi's always busy; I don't know how she finds the time for it all; I suspect she doesn't sleep and is a robot.

[@PlanetEarth3141]

That will surprise Elon. 😅

[@snellsnell7490]

Yay, I love babies I also love the adult ones too. They are all beautiful.

[@JadeStrawberry]

These both were absolute birthing emergencies. Great bat doctoring and breaking up bat crankiness, Mandi.

[@keldaogg2157]

Generations. Old dudes,mumbats and babybats. All being magnificently cared for by Mandi.

[@americomonteiroribeiro]

I love your baby's.

[@lindaw3525]

So sweet! I wish we had flying foxes here in the U.S. They are so adorable! ❤

[@yomama8873]

So very precious thank you 🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖💖🦇🦇🦇🦇

[@PK-oy4fe]

Beautiful little battie babies. A miracle of birth....although the old guys do not seem impressed!🤣😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️

[@PlanetEarth3141]

😊.

[@Elly-fm3nx]

How beautiful, congratulations mum bats! 💗🦇💗🦇 Thanks for sharing 🎉

[@nataliakhomenko5325]

Thank you, wonderful person, for caring about living beings

[@Megabattie]

Mandi is an awesome batty carer; her work is amazing and her care of the old dudes is unparalleled.

[@judithwalker8682]

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MUM BATS !!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

[@anneterry3660]

Thankfully you kept these babies alive, kept the mums from possible deadly birth trauma, and made life succeed. I have no words of adequate to express my joy and respect for being the midwife for these mums and babies.

[@Megabattie]

It was lucky that Mandi was there for both of the births, otherwise Zena's baby would be dead and Zena may not have survived, and Florentine's baby would have a wrist injury which may have killed the membrane on baby's wing, making baby unreleasable

[@SuziQ.]

@@Megabattie, Maybe during baby season, Mandi could have a camera recording (one she can view from her phone). There are so many options, including solar, and repurposed old cellphones. Just a thought, though she must be out there a good part of each day.

[@debstewart4558]

Zenas' face is is beautiful. Congratulations 🎉

[@1234j]

Oh wow. So much saving going on 😮. Thank you from England for your time, energy and skills saving these.

[@MazzMaTazz]

I had to check, but it was one of Zena's babies that wandered into the old dude's aviary and caused The Outrage of Gelert. Awesome that both babies are doing well. Mandi to the rescue!

[@Megabattie]

Yes, Zena's baby Gabrielle; poor Gelert had to stink up all his man cave again to ward off the polluting effect of baby girl from his space. (and baby Black girl at that...)

[@dyanalayng5507]

Awww. Baby hanging on with little new foot. Mummy, mummy, I’m hanging on! Mom licking beautiful little wing. ❤. Old guy having a fuss. Sounds of crickets and roosters. Welcome to your new world babies. ❤

[@marionbowler5440]

Beautiful miracles ✨️ 🇨🇦🦇🍁

[@mariagonzalez5119]

AWESOME VIDEO ❤❤❤

[@Lisa-eu9fy]

Lovely!💕🦇💕🦇💕🦇💕

[@sonialignani]

Simply wonderful!! Great Mandi who did so much for her 2 babies (newborn) best wishes to the mumbat and I noticed there is always a massage session for King Teddy!!! Gelert doesn't care about all that happened that day, ❤❤❤

[@ALGardner2]

Poor Gelert, surrounded by ladies pushing out babies, how is a guy to sleep? Love Hector and his emotional support sloth. Oh Teddy! ❤️

[@Megabattie]

mmm, yes, Teddy and his mister wiggles... Poor Gelert, but at least the girls don't make any noise when giving birth.

[@Purpie_Slurpie]

Mandi is a wonderful battie midwife!

[@Megabattie]

she is indeed

[@jenniferseals3642]

Bats scare me to death! But fascinate me too! Nice video!

[@tracyjacoby2382]

Congratulations Mumbats Zena🤓 and Florentine🩶 with Bubba's!🦇🤗💕💕 Bless Hector & his support Sloth.🥺🩶🦇🤗🦥💕 Once again the male Bats want no part of the bubba's.😂 Nana Cinders is precious!🩶🦇🥰

[@Megabattie]

I wonder if they realise they're the fathers; I wonder if they have any idea where the babies come from....

[@tracyjacoby2382]

​@@Megabattie 😂 It didn't surprise me to learn the males have no interest. Same with male Cats & Dogs, they want nothing to do with the kittens/puppies. I'm sure another commenter will say "our male welcomed the babies!" I have never seen that.😉💕

[@Megabattie]

@@tracyjacoby2382 I did one rescue where the baby was gently brought home by a big old tomcat, carried by the scruff of her neck and brought to his human; baby didn't have a puncture on her.

[@debbiefox6846]

​@@tracyjacoby2382I have had friends that I have personally witnessed the male dogs & sometimes male cats actively participating with the offspring. I've seen it more often in dogs than in domestic cats. Wild canine males have active parts in the family group situation such as wolves. I've seen male housecats playing with their babies and doing some cleaning/baby sitting duties. I think with domestic animals it really depends on the animals & the situation.

[@pixelgoat7317]

Yay! Order up! More sweet, adorable squeaky puffs, please!

[@GlitzyWitch]

Beautiful momma's and their babies. Mandi you are wonderful ❤️ im goimg to have to watch tomorrow as i cant keeo my eyes open, its past bed time. I love everything you do to help these bats ❤❤❤❤

[@Megabattie]

Mandi is amazing

[@marcel_max]

This is so cool, we need more firefoxy babies and here are two new ones

[@danadyd59]

Such good mums!

[@donstor1]

Those bats just love you guys. I cannot imagine they would ever want to leave, they have it made there and they know it.

[@Megabattie]

The old dudes can't leave; they can't fly, but I think nearly all of them have been in care for their entire lives, having been rescued as babies.

[@dany.adelfinger]

Yay for midwife Mandi! I had to look twice what Teddy was wiggling... LOL 🤭

[@Megabattie]

Yes, mister wiggles was wiggling away...

[@SuziQ.]

Here, Daniela: 1:21

[@elkenieen3856]

Die sind so was von Süß die Flughunde ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊🇧🇪

[@valerieclay5067]

Hi it's amazing the way bat's have their babies while hanging upside down, I watch the bat's fly over my unit in Caringbah every sunset, just love them so much,Thank you for sharing this and taking such good care of them,God bless you, ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🦇🦇🦇

[@gingermm8987]

Cute 🥰

[@tejana971]

How sweet ❤❤❤

[@THISISBEAR]

Poor baby Hector, there is nothing worse than being in pain. Thanks you for sharing these videos Meg!!!! They are all absolutely adorable!!!! I just love watching your videos and you've taught me so much! How long before the babies are fully independent from their Mum? 🇨🇦 (The bop in the head bit...hilarious! It's like, "Hey!" Get out of my camera shot!" 😂 They are quite the characters!!!

[@Megabattie]

The babies can be on mumbat for up to 5 months, but they're able to fly independently around 3 months; they still feed from mumbat as long as she will allow, which is usually til she gets pregnant again and needs the nutrition for her growing foetus. Sometimes the huge babies of the mumbats in care will be feeding up until 5-6 months. They're babies from 1 to 12 weeks, juveniles from 3 months to 6 months and subadult thereafter until puberty, around 15-18 months for the girls and a little earlier for the boys (around 12 months). In the wild they'd be flying out independently from about 3 months, flying with the colony and near mum.

[@wombat.6652]

Thank you teams for all the good you do! And thank you for showing us :))))))

[@Megabattie]

Mandi does great work

[@audreyl.9200]

I'm new to your channel. The emotional support sloth holding the bat, was so sweet❤. Your bats are big! We just have little mouse size bats where I live.

[@Megabattie]

Hi Audrey Welcome to Megabattie, I'm Meg I put lots of information in the descriptions under the videos - so if you have questions, look for the answers there first. I also put the fate of the animal if I know it, at the time I put the video up. I may put updates there later if I find out what happened to the animal after it has left my care. There is also a Happy Outcomes playlist if you want to only watch videos where the bat survives; this is a real life channel and you get the good, the bad, the ugly and distressing, and even my oopsies. You can find further videos on an individual bat by searching in the YT search bar for Megabattie/and the name of the bat you want to follow. There is a community tab (like a mini Facebook page) on my channel - if you go to Megabattie home page, there is a menu bar across the top under the cover pic. Home, Videos, Playlists, Community, About. If you click on the community tab there are posts there where I can share pix and talk about some of the videos I put up and answer questions. I put up videos from Mandi and my rescue and care videos, so look to the title or description to figure out the context of the vids. Mandi doesn't rescue but she does a huge amount of rehabbing and has a lot of permanent care bats unable to be released for various reasons. She sends me the most amazing videos of her old retired bats in care; they've all got individual personalities and adorable quirks. Mandi lives 1200 kms away from me so I don't get to visit there often. I raise money for her on the videos. The rescue vids from my point of view are all mine, and if you hear me talking and see my hands in the videos doing bat care, then that's me too.

[@audreyl.9200]

@Megabattie wow, thanks for all the info, Meg! You are doing a wonderful job, rescuing the Bats. I never thought of them as the lovely creatures you have shown me. I now 💖 bats!

[@Megabattie]

@@audreyl.9200 18 years ago I didn't think about bats in any capacity unless I saw one flying over; now they're part of my daily life, and my passion

[@silvanabertotti713]

❤❤

[@SuziQ.]

1:21 I was not expecting that. I love Teddy, carrying Walter’s legacy on. How did little Hector break his tibia? Will he and the new babies be released? Has Mandi had released babies stay in her home made colony outside the free diner? Thank you for sharing, and thank Mandi, too. Those newborn feet are beautiful. 💙

[@Megabattie]

I don't know how Hector broke his leg; he was rescued with a broken leg. Many of Mandi's released bats come back for a free feed, even some of the handraised creche babies sometimes.

[@moebanshee]

God bless them

[@koppsr]

Congratulations, it's a bat! ❤️🦇❤️🥰🥰😊😉 Times two!! ❤️🦇🦇❤️😊😊

[@mercedesgarcia5808]

Que bonito

[@mariacav6662]

meravigliosi 🥰😘❤️

[@PlanetEarth3141]

I can never decide how many fingers or claws these bats have or if they have some opposible thumb. Can you tell me? 😊

[@Megabattie]

5 fingers, 5 toes. The thumbs are half way along the leading edge of the wing; there are 4 fingers which are elongated and enclosed in the wing membrane. The thumbs aren't exactly opposable in that they don't have anyway to grasp, but the thumbs are highly mobile and have a wide range of motion and they use them to pull things towards themselves.

[@PlanetEarth3141]

@Megabattie That's very helpful in understanding how the bat's anatomy works. Thanks.

[@Megabattie]

@@PlanetEarth3141 Google flying-fox skeleton and that should give you more of an idea

[@psp4604]

Precious brave mommy bats.

[@kims.schinkel8212]

Aw come on, Gelert! You could do worse than be named a godfather!

[@tracyjacoby2382]

😂😂😂 I hear the theme to The Godfather movie!🎶🎶🩶🦇💕

[@Bedonkabonk]

8:44 Zena has a really pretty eye mask.

[@Megabattie]

It's a malnutrition mask; when Zena came into care she was horribly longterm emaciated and took a lot of quality feeding to get her into good health, but the marks from the malnutrition (dry coarse discoloured fur around the eyes) remains.

[@georgia19801]

Welcome new batty babies. Thank goodness Mandi was on hand to assist with the births.

[@Megabattie]

They were very lucky she was there.

[@S1LLYSC3N3C0R3LARA]

More batty babies :)

[@nataliakhomenko5325]

Good news of the day

[@Catherine-hf6zc]

Bat dudes: exsisting is not equivalent to growing and pushing out babies, leave the juice to the girls! And honors to Mandi for her battie midwife skills, BRAVA!!!!

[@Megabattie]

Mandi said it was such an emergency she didn't know if Zena's baby was going to survive; then followed 10 minutes later with the cord wrapped tightly around Florentine's baby's wrist...

[@janegreen9340]

Old dudes - “ it’s a baby, so what?” Seen it all before I suppose. ❤

[@farmers-daughter2000]

How does the cord separate.

[@farmers-daughter2000]

Well I guess I found out. Uggg!

[@Megabattie]

They bite through it and eat the placenta; eating the placenta retrieves nutrients (iron and protein) which helps her recover from the pregnancy; eating the placenta also keeps away predators who would flock to the scent of blood and meat on the ground underneath.

[@lucasblakeman3770]

So, Meg and Mandi. Who will be the names of the two new little ones?

[@Megabattie]

I don't know; it's up to Mandi. Zena's baby is female but I'm not sure she has checked the sex of Florentine's baby.

[@lucasblakeman3770]

@@Megabattie Okay. Guess we wait

[@Megabattie]

@@lucasblakeman3770 She hasn't checked Florentine's baby's sex (or if she did she's forgotten the sex; I told her you asked, so she said she'll call it Luca or Lucas. There you are; lucky you.

[@lucasblakeman3770]

@@Megabattie Oh, so it's a little boy named after me.

[@Megabattie]

@@lucasblakeman3770 She doesn't know the sex; it might be either, but yes she's named it after you.

[@mattador55]

I love how Hector nearly blends into the sloth when the arm is over the darker colored parts of his body lol

[@childofcascadia]

TIL I learned a few things. 1) Bats apparently are growers not showers. 2) Its mobile 3) *someone* has a "thing" for pregnancy and birth. Randy ol man.

[@Megabattie]

They can be very very impressive when fully extended (up to their chins). They can self direct their "member" I don't think he was self stimulating; I think he was daydreaming; the births were irrelevant.

[@SuziQ.]

Walter had an impressive member, too.

[@childofcascadia]

@Megabattie Reminiscing about his younger years when he got all the cute girlbats every mating season, I suppose. Im assuming they have a generally promiscuous mating strategy, where males take whatever they can poke and females have a handful of mates they prefer to pair with, and those preferred mates will guard them against...*ahem* opportunists? (Trying to get by the youtube censor here because apparently now we cant acknowledge nonconsensual intercourse) I know nothing about megabat reproduction (beyond meep, his girls and his coconuts). Watching the older vids, Ive seen some pairings that look consensual with both parties appearing to be enjoying themselves, lots of mutual grooming and so on going on and it lasting quite a while and then some 5 second wham bam thank you maam jump on and gtfo that look much less consensual. Kind of glad male humans dont have a unit like that, itd be 2 feet long! I suppose it makes sense. If you and your partner are both hanging upside down with giant wings for upper limbs, you have to make sure it can get where it needs to go.

[@donnadixon289]

Big congrats to the new Mums! Well, what can we say about Teddy and his, um, Mr Wiggles.

[@Megabattie]

His little wiggle?

[@donnadixon289]

@ Yes, Teddy has a unique way to wave to the camera.😀

[@SuziQ.]

@@donnadixon289😂

[@SedatedByLife]

Lol I watch them at the bottle and all I can think of is how my dog licks my face frantically in the morning to wake me up because she has to potty.

[@Megabattie]

My birds used to wake me up when they had chicks in the nest; Arkie would get out of the nest box at dawn to see if I would feed her because after a night of sitting on eggs she was starving; she'd hold her poos in all night so she didn't soil the nest, so the first poo of the day was huge and jelly like and splatty. If I didn't wake up, she'd climb up the sheet at the end of the bed, come up to my shoulder and croon to me, and if I still didn't wake up, she'd do a HUGE poo on my face. I learned to wake up really quickly when she had chicks. She and Babylon the Evil Bastard swapped nest duties then, so I had to get him up too and put masses of food into the cage so they could eat it and vomit it back into the demanding and gaping mouths of the insatiable and noisy chicks. There was no going back to bed after this.

[@SedatedByLife]

@Megabattie omg lol the little shite. And people say animals don't have personalities

[@Megabattie]

@@SedatedByLife She needed to do a poo, she liked having free air under her tail so she didn't get the poo in her feathers, and being on my shoulder gave her clear air under her tail. She didn't do a poo immediately she got out of the box - she'd been holding it in all night so she had to let it percolate before she felt the urge; it was usually a few minutes after she got out of the box. It is always very splatty and malodorous. I learnt to wake up straight away when she got out of the box.

[@SuziQ.]

⁠@@Megabattie, Gross. Arkie should switch nicknames with Babylon. Is that your current pair?

[@Megabattie]

@@SuziQ. Arkie died about 12 months ago. Babylon is my only bird, but I kind of share birds with a friend; she has them all sometimes and I have them all sometimes, so at the moment I have the Evil Bastard plus his dwarf daughter Princess Fluffy Duck, plus Mr Chirpleton and Pixel.

[@Kevin8-b2b]

❤

[@Counterbalance_]

Gilbert is a granddad now, whether he likes it or not.

[@Megabattie]

Haha Gelert has been castrated so he's not a biological dad to anyone

[@missnaomi613]

🦇❤🦇❤🦇❤🦇❤🦇

[@BarrySuridge]

[@AnniekinsMyshkamouse-r4j]

0:40 So comfy.

[@weftwarp1537]

Where's the 👶baby daddy??

[@SuziQ.]

In the aviary. I don’t know if we’ll know who to congratulate. Teddy has impressive parts, but Gelert has charms of his own (and a horrible genetic bone disorder). It could be another male.

[@brookeoscarson2520]

I wonder if a soft bristles tooth brush would be a nice grooming brush for them and the babys

[@Megabattie]

Sometimes we use toothbrushes for the babies but the old dudes like fingertip massage.

[@sergheirussu9609]

Ой Божечки мои кто там такие

[@Megabattie]

их называют летучими лисами; это что-то вроде фруктовой летучей мыши

[@sergheirussu9609]

@Megabattie знаю давно наблюдаю за ними

[@janetsanders5356]

Circus 🎢in 🎡the 🎪 _______Aviary______'_