Flying-fox has X-Rays: this is Myrtle

[@randyterry9672]

I am pulling for you Myrtle. Thanks Meg and all wildlife rescuers!

[@sonialignani]

Yes, Best wishes Myrtle, I thought you need more time to show us your wonderful flight!!! Meg, ' m glad you found another vet for your batties!! i

[@Megabattie]

I've had Robbie for a while, but while Vicky the vet nurse (we love Vicky the vet nurse) was there, I had a lot more options.

[@theresahart212]

Come sweet Myrtle, another day for your “big flyaway”..heal heal heal…thanks to all of you that help Miss Meg and our darling batties!

[@merrylmarsh9037]

You and the team are grand. You are giving her every chance available. Thank You for all your work with these precious animals.

[@Megabattie]

I'm lucky Robbie whose to help us with our batties.

[@tracyjacoby2382]

Meg you have an incredible eye re:x-ray image where something looked off👍 & sense of humor re: puppy dog in x-ray at end!😂 I am pulling for sweet Myrtle🦇🤗💕and keeping positive thoughts, for her to get stronger & be able to fly free one day. Thanks Meg & to Vet Robbie, much RESPECT!!!🥰

[@tamarrajames3590]

I loved the puppy inside her keeping her from flying lol.🖤🇨🇦

[@tracyjacoby2382]

@@tamarrajames3590 Me too🤗🦇💕

[@TakoyaKyono]

Poor Myrtle. Here's hoping for a healthy recovery. Looking forward to seeing her progress.

[@tamarrajames3590]

Robbie is a lovely Vet to look after the bats so kindly. Myrtle looks so good (if a little skinny), and she doesn’t lack for strength and agility. My money is on her to fatten up and get flight ready again. I’m glad there were no visible injuries to her flight structures.🖤🇨🇦

[@artfairylcw6039]

Thank You 💖💖💖💖XXXX

[@TrippNBalz]

Happy for no fractures! She probably loves the room service at her carers 😂.

[@Charmayne7]

I'm telling you, she's just not ready to check out of La Maison Megabattie yet.

[@TrippNBalz]

@@Charmayne7 who could blame her 🤣!

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

I'm always impressed at how huge their hearts are! Watching her fly in slow motion, it's like she won't do a proper full-power downstroke. I hope it's just sore muscles or some such that will heal with a little more time.

[@Megabattie]

Me too. Yes their hearts are huge because they have a lot of pumping to do.

[@microzoo3775]

Beautifull video! thank you very much for you! We all love you!

[@Kim-lc3fv]

Thank you, Dr. Robbie, for helping Myrtle. We've got to get her flying.

[@Megabattie]

She'll go out to the release aviary with the next cycle intake.

[@holidaymagic17]

Very beautiful bat at the least😂❤

[@Wendy-cj5yz]

Fascinating seeing the x ray & seeing you both working together.

[@vikki4now]

Poor girl. She really wanted to fly..

[@womanofsubstance8735]

Let's all hope and pray that Myrtle makes a full recovery and can teach a master class in flying on her next attempt at freedom! Go, Myrtle!

[@victorapalkow8681]

😢sorrrry wait Flying 🦇👳🏻‍♂👳🏻‍♀ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💙🤗

[@wolfangel369]

,Bless her...Sending healing love to you sweet girl ❤xxx

[@francesfarmer736]

Oh Good Myrtle gets some more time to heal and fatten up!!

[@JadeStrawberry]

I hope Myrtle heals from why she can't fly. Noice flirting with Dr. Robbie. 🦇

[@Megabattie]

Not really flirting, just being Meg

[@geoffmorris1769]

You are an absolute angel. I’ve just returned to UK from Australia. Never seen anything like these babies. Fantastic, keep up the good work.

[@Megabattie]

Shame you missed out on seeing the batties while you were here.

[@geoffmorris1769]

@@Megabattie I didn't. I saw them Cairns and Adelaide. Fantastic sight.

[@Megabattie]

@@geoffmorris1769 Awesome

[@dany.adelfinger]

Myrtle woke up very fast! And I'm always amazed at how big the flying-foxes are when their wings are spread out. I hope she's recovering well and can be relased. Dr Robbie seems to be a good and nice vet. I laughed at the fart puppy 😂

[@PaulG.x]

Several weeks ago ,back at the colony: "Now remember , if you get into trouble and are captured by the Meg human ,and it looks like she is going to release you , pretend you can't fly and you will get several more weeks of free fruit and a warm place to stay."

[@Megabattie]

Don't encourage them...

[@nickjury5198]

Great news Myrtle had no breaks👍I always get anxious when x-rays are taking place, fingers always crossed things will be okay

[@lindam2090]

Thank you for giving her more time. I wish she could be my pet bat in case she needs to just hand out forever

[@Megabattie]

Bats aren't pets; they're wild animals. She's a wild animal and wants to be free, not kept imprisoned as a pet.

[@jayceewedmak9524]

Thanks to the vet and staff 😊

[@marionbowler5440]

Pretty bat, hope all goes well 🇨🇦🦇🍁

[@gsdalpha1358]

What a sweetheart Robbie is! When my little gray and white cat became ill recently, one x-ray was $180 USD and was inconclusive - and vet didn't offer any alternative views. If Myrtle had sore ribs, wouldn't it really hurt to try and fly? So relieved she has something which has a better outlook!

[@Megabattie]

I'm not convinced that she has/had rib fractures. They're only on one side and I think this would have been reflected in asymmetrical flight. I don't know. She didn't appear to have any pain if you handled her. I hope it isn't one of those soft tissue things where they don't ever fly again and you never know the reason

[@gsdalpha1358]

@@Megabattie Fingers crossed she was just being a drama queen and will fly again!

[@myssixensen7516]

yeah, to me it looked like she might have some damage to the costal cartilage(due to location of the funkiness) of those right ribs which will as you say will need time to heal... she made beautiful X-rays I was glad there weren't any broken bones1 I hope she dose heal up well and gets some good weight on her so she ca properly take back to the sky's!

[@Megabattie]

One of my Radiologist friends said it looks like calcified costal cartilage, and that sprains of the costal cartilage would escape xray detection.

[@julianneboys4062]

Fascinating

[@Lisa-eu9fy]

Oh I was wondering about this darlin girl! 🦇💜💕💜💕💜🦇

[@catherinehubbard1167]

International appreciation to the generous and caring Dr Rob and good wishes for Myrtle to grow strong enough to fly. Since she had no fractures and didn’t show pain, I’m hoping her problem was weakness from malnutrition and poor condition.

[@carolynnunes3922]

Rooting for Myrtle to take to the skies once again!

[@arfo2003]

Cutie 💖🦇💖

[@ellizaarahim]

Glad nothing was amiss with her bones. Let's give her time to heal, more grapes and yoghurt plus more test flight. THEN she'll have her flight to the wild !

[@SuziQ.]

“Fart puppy”. 😂 This is a really educational video, Meg. Are the wavy looking parts of her lower (left?) ribs old, healed rib fractures, or could they be caused by gas (are her rib bones malleable enough that gas can cause the ribs to curve in those places)? It’s fascinating seeing the x-ray images, and how you position the bat to get the most accurate angles to look at her bone structure. She wants to fly. Perhaps a nice extra week or so of spa care will be all that she needs to achieve lift. Fly, Myrtle, be free. We’re rooting for you. Thank you, Meg. I hope you’re still resting and healing. 💙

[@Megabattie]

The lower right ribs look discontinuous. But she displays no sign of rib pain. It's not gas.

[@chriscorbin2059]

You can tell you've been doing this for awhile. Vet assistant, at least when it comes to bats 😂❤😂

[@tamarrajames3590]

Meg was once a nurse for humans…but she prefers the batties. Can’t say I blame her either lol.🖤🇨🇦

[@joclarke9107]

❤

[@wadilsono]

avante Myrtle , thanks Meg and everyone. 🦇🦇

[@anitamackinnon7975]

Very informative when you take them to the vets!❤️🦇🇨🇦

[@Megabattie]

I try to give you the full experience...

[@MyVynsanity]

Flying foxes are so cute

[@roxannesharbono994]

Could it be she is just weak from not getting enough food and will heal up after after another week at spa wires?

[@Megabattie]

She will be in care for another 2 months or so now; she can't go for a another hard release; she has been in care for too long now and has lost too much flight fitness. She'll have to go out through the release aviary.

[@briannahnilo2666]

Awwwwwwwww. I can’t tell if he’s that shiny because you’re covering him up with something gray or if that’s his. Shiny fur He’s hey beautiful flying fox if I’m correct.

[@Megabattie]

Myrtle is female. I don't know what you're seeing which you think is shiny. I have a darker grey cloth (which isn't shiny) that I wrap her in later.

[@briannahnilo2666]

@@Megabattie It could also be the lighting, that’s probably what it was I fined the black flying foxes and other bat shiny. There pretty. 🩵

[@briannahnilo2666]

@@Megabattie I see exactly what you’re talking about now But she’s still shiny😊

[@briannahnilo2666]

@@Megabattie Next bat you half to save you should name him or her Midnight

[@briannahnilo2666]

@@Megabattie I probably wasn’t paying attention 😂 lol probably because I have my hands tied with a crazy bird, and she wants to sit outside, and the sunlight hits her and it makes her look shiny but now that I watch it back, I actually do you see the beginning where myrtle is trying to fly in the sunlight hits her Black to make it look shiny and then I do see the rest of what you were talking about. Sometimes when my black cat goes outside the sun hits on him and it almost makes him look gray. It’s actually pretty cool.

[@ja6368]

I think I can, I think I can🥰

[@Megabattie]

... I thought I could, I thought I could...

[@chriscaughey1103]

Go Myrtle!

[@wombat.6652]

Thank you for showing us all this. Love scientists = anesthesia, x-rays. Applied science and dedication. crossing all my fingers, ankles, knees. * don't try and walk like this *cough* I know

[@Megabattie]

Wombats walk with all their bits crossed, don't they? Or does it just look like it?

[@wombat.6652]

@@Megabattie It just looks like it. :D

[@Megabattie]

@@wombat.6652 Secret Aussie insider knowledge, got it!

[@missnaomi613]

I don't think I've ever seen or heard the term "fart puppy" before... My life is complete.

[@Megabattie]

I probably made up the term... and I don't regret it. I've also found Jesus in a fart as well (which doesn't amuse some people but it definitely amused me).

[@missnaomi613]

@@Megabattie that's hilarious. Don't ever change! 😎🦇❤️

[@RoxanneSharbono-mb8ol]

Any updates? Can't find them if there are

[@Megabattie]

I don't think she was ready for hard release within a week so she just joined the crowd and was released through the release aviary. If no updates it's because I didn't get any updates or footage thereafter.

[@anyagetman8596]

They veer to the side of the injury ?

[@tamarrajames3590]

They veer to the uninjured side, because that wing has more power.🖤🇨🇦

[@SuziQ.]

Tamarra is right. Meg did put that in the description, which I read (and all the comments) while the ads were (and still are) running. @Megabattie, Is it true that we only have to play 30 seconds of ads ?

[@anyagetman8596]

As an engineer, I'm confused. Maybe it's different for a bat, but if you are a plane with a motor on each wing, and the left wing motor dies, you will slowly turn to the left

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@anyagetman8596 Think of a row boat with only one oar…unless you paddle both sides, the boat will pull toward the oar side.🖤🇨🇦

[@SuziQ.]

@@anyagetman8596 , Fixed wing versus a non-fixed wing. Edit to add: the one side isn’t completely useless in this case, only weaker. In the airplane engine, the left wing is almost useless. Edit 2: Tamarra explained it better with her analogy.

[@hibiscusfreak]

Is her heart a normal size for a bat? I used to be a vet tech and if she were a dog or cat, I think the heart would be a bit enlarged. How is she now?

[@Megabattie]

It's a normal size; they need big hearts to supply the blood flow and oxygen to fuel flight.

[@Catherine-hf6zc]

Myrtyl, you poor baby! Did getting rescued and transported to heavenly bat hotel and buffet use up the last bit of resilience you had? Empty tank syndrome? 🦇 You have the moves, just not enough oomph.💪 Maybe your little gut needs a vitamin pick me up to better absorb the buffet goodies? Sleep tranquility ? 🌌 Maggie and her magic toothbrush 🪥? You keep absorbing the hospitality, you'll be back home soon.

[@Megabattie]

Maggie's holidaying in Japan at the moment, so no Maggie love happening.

[@wildflower1397]

Maybe Myrtle is just waiting because she hopes to star in another release film. Hopefully she does some more healing, then flys high and free. 🦇🌈

[@Megabattie]

She won't star in another release video though - the window for hard release back into the colony is a maximum of 10 days after rescue. After that they go out through the release aviary and you don't see them fly off; they come and go for a while, and come back for a feed if they're not fit enough to find enough food for themselves, and eventually they don't come back.

[@wildflower1397]

@@Megabattie Good point. I forgot, lol. Either way, I hope she heals well and flies strong so she can be released.

[@denisebethany5691]

Hopefully she wont fly is because she is still a little sore. More time she will fly off into the sky.

[@aprilmartinez656]

A fart puppy! Haha, snort , haha

[@толикеремин]

0:12-0:24-тетка Мэг, я от тебя все равно уползу! 😀хватит меня спасать!