Rescuing a flying-fox in a construction site; this is Myrtle

[@wolfangel369]

I watch your posts from East Sussex UK every night before I go to sleep...seeing you rescue these adorable creatures melts my heart and makes me feel better about anything crappy that may have happened in tne day...tnank you Meg and team xxxx❤

[@Megabattie]

Glad to make you happy

😍How precious you ALL are. Greetings from Sweden!

[@lindam2090]

Thank you MOP for calling

[@donnadixon289]

Poor girl was so thirsty. Glad she made it into such wonderful care.

[@danielleleyshon-m9o]

You are a BOSS.

[@lindahansen2778]

Really helped me to feel positive today. Thanks

[@Megabattie]

Are you OK or is life tough at the moment? Glad I could give you a positive video. I expect to hard release her today or tomorrow, which will make me very happy.

[@merrylmarsh9037]

Lovely to see another positive rescue.

[@wildflower1397]

From beginning to end Myrtle's expression was "If I just pretend I am not actually here, nobody can bother me." 😂 What a sweetheart. ❤️

[@Megabattie]

Myrtle was a Meg. Meg likes to go into a corner and check things out before committing to the human sniff fest on her own terms.

[@olivegrove2615]

@@Megabattie very wise.

[@lindamitchell796]

You are so kind.

[@JonahzVoice3-4]

I loved hearing you call Myrtle, "gorgeous girl" ❤

[@Rozebunny14]

And she even got her nails done😊🙃💚🥰

[@Megabattie]

LOL. Need to keep them at least temporarily ID'd. I chip them now, but each chip costs a few dollars so I prefer to not chip a bat unless I know it's going to survive, and she was still a little iffy at this stage,

[@marionbowler5440]

What a lovely gal, love your naming them Meg, hope you and your family are ok, and Maggie as well. Hurray for the batties, need a cape Meg, super hero bat lady.❤🇨🇦🦇🍁🙃

[@knottybead4871]

To quote Edna Mode “No cape!” 😂

[@dany.adelfinger]

Many lovely and helpful MOPs lately, that's good. Yay, Myrtle, a survivor!

[@tamarrajames3590]

Miss Myrtle is a very pretty little lady. She looks a little confused, but very accepting of your ministrations. Glad to hear she is doing so well she might be a hard release. Very nice MOP. She was precious in the aviary…and the little Gang all just waiting till you leave.🥂🖤🇨🇦

[@robertotamagnini4891]

if you love dogs , you MUST love flying-foxes , they are nothing but little cute dogs who received wings from mother nature ..... 🙂

[@keldaogg2157]

She really looks like "what the hell happened to me?" Especially at the end. She doesn't know how lucky she is.

[@толикеремин]

Она охренела! Огромное чудовище сцапало её, утащило и непонятно что делает!

[@Dallamar88]

I wanna give a BIG HUG to that big bat company! ❤

[@littleredflying-fox]

Myrtle seems to be such a sweet natured bat. It's good to see an easy, hopeful rescue!

[@толикеремин]

Да. Не орет и не кусается. Мне кажется, она в шоке.

[@anneterry3660]

Oh, that chorus of faces, so innocent and curious. This video made a so-so day, a lovely day.

[@Megabattie]

Glad it made your day

[@pattyg674]

Gracias saludos desde mexico

[@PK-oy4fe]

Yeh Myrtle! Another survivor! Hey Meg...another light sold!😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️

[@Megabattie]

YAY Patti

[@PK-oy4fe]

@Megabattie and its a gentleman from my hometown..Pittsburgh, Pa.! Will wait for more before sending toTolga!

[@gsdalpha1358]

No cries of distress, no attempts to bite - Myrtle is a lovely serene girl! That was a very nice MOP, loved his sense of humor. It was funny to see the other rescues hanging out in the corner and watching you. Thank you for sharing!

[@darrylsmith7871]

I was worried about Myrtle - she didn't appear to have much "cranky" in her. Glad to see she's doing well!

[@Megabattie]

Extremely well.

[@wolfangel369]

We like a cranky bat 😅 ❤

[@RenGraes]

You're right to worry about the lack of 'cranky' levels. Normally when that happens, it's indicative of head-trauma and possible brain damage. But in some rare cases, they're fine and they're realizing 'oh, they're here to help' Especially the precious 'Juice moments'

[@yvonneferguson8575]

Thank you Meg for all you do. You are an angel. Hope Myrtle will be OK. Lovely mop for helping.

[@Megabattie]

Myrtle's OK and feisty still. I'm not the faintest bit angelic, unless you call me smiting people with fiery (word) swords an angelic trait.

[@AudreyLMcFarland]

Myrtle is adorable. Thank you to the MOP for helping her out, and Meg, Thank you for getting your butt out of bed and helping her! Wishing her a wonderful, long, and healthy life!! As well as all the others that are hanging around! Aren't they adorable!

[@Megabattie]

Hoping to release her today

[@sonialignani]

​@@Megabattie wow!!!

[@melaniekispert9114]

What is an MOP?

[@tracyjacoby2382]

The MOP seemed very nice. Thank you Meg for rescuing beautiful Myrtle🦇💚🤗💕. You had a judgement stare session & a lovely greeter who tried to make Myrtle feel welcome but she's scared🦇🥺💕

[@Lisa-eu9fy]

YAY! You survived darlin boy! 🦇💚💚💚🦇

[@tamarrajames3590]

Ummm, girl that would be, and I echo your YAY!🖤🇨🇦

[@holidaymagic17]

SMART BAT AVOIDING THE SNIFF FESTIVITIES 🤣🤣🤣

[@tamarrajames3590]

They will get her as soon as Meg leaves lol.🖤🇨🇦

[@Megabattie]

She probably got into it in her own time after I left, on her own terms.

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@Megabattie She and Kirbi said hello…but Myrtle was being wary of her space, and getting her bearings. No doubt they got it sorted out.🖤🇨🇦

[@harrietking8768]

What an incredibly sweet bat!

[@tracyjacoby2382]

Re-watching with total RESPECT and LOVE for you Meg and ALL you do to save the beautiful Bats!! Myrtle is gorgeous!!🦇🤗💕💕 The judgement stares are hilarious!!!😳🦇😳🦇😳😹🥰

[@erismana2105]

Beautuful Myrtle 💜

[@thechariotcard]

I’m surprised at how fast she drinks and how much she holds!

[@Megabattie]

They can drink 10% of their bodyweight in one sitting easily. Their stomach processes it and moves it along, where the fluid is absorbed and sent to the kidneys who shunt it out really quickly. Think about it and work out how much fluid it would mean you would have to drink to emulate this.

[@circeciernova1712]

The 'inspector' says those balconies need to be redesigned - they're far too hard to fly out of!

[@theresahart212]

Miss Meg you are so humble…😂😂😂😂you crack me up!

[@Megabattie]

Nah not humble; I put up my videos for everyone to admire me... perfect way to pretend to be humble

[@roxannesharbono994]

She says I want grapes not oranges...😄

[@Megabattie]

They were mandarins, not oranges. The bats don't really like oranges; too acidic.

[@roxannesharbono994]

@@Megabattie in the US mandarins are considered a type of orange and are usually marketed as mandarin oranges.

[@Megabattie]

@@roxannesharbono994 Here mandies are disgustingly sweet and marketed as mandarins.

[@roxannesharbono994]

The mandarins here in the US are easier to peak than the large oranges but aste very similar if not the same.

[@ashleygreen5343]

She seems very kind, although a bit frightened. Glad she's doing well.

[@sonialignani]

Such a pretty girl, I like her name so much. An uninjured bat, wonderful!!!!I just woke up and i' m so glad to see a pretty bat!!

[@miezepups15]

I love the grabby feetses.

[@catherinehubbard1167]

Your story of this bat’s naming reminded me of something that happened a long time ago when I was in college. Students at that university had minimal appreciation for the process of electing student body officers nor in fact for the student officers themselves. Similarly, I didn’t know there was a football team for the first couple of years. The school colors were officially myrtle and maroon, but then someone cleaned the accumulated grime off the old sign hanging outside the main offices that featured these official school colors and it turned out they were actually supposed to be bright red and green. We had other interests. Anyway, that first year when we were supposed to vote for student officers, there was enthusiasm for only one candidate, a write-in: Myrtle the Turtle. There were several campaign events for this fictitious candidate, and she won by a landslide. An act of creative apathy. I hope this Myrtle gets her muscles and mojo back and can take her place back in the wild and thrive.

[@Megabattie]

Lovely story. Myrtle is going to be released today or tomorrow

[@catherinehubbard1167]

@@Megabattie : good for Myrtle! And for everyone who played a part in her return to health and a free life.

[@leannericher]

I am so very shocked that Myrtle did not react verbally to the needlesticks and micro-chipping. Have a good and long life Myrtle

[@Megabattie]

She is very tolerant. She isn't chipped (well she is now) so it's not that she's been in care before (or maybe she has and she wasn't chipped on release.

[@SuziQ.]

Myrtle is calmer than my dogs are when I’m administering medical (usually ears) aid, or inspecting toenails for cracks. I hope she does well. Will you release her, or does her next carer get to do that? I love watching the hard release videos you make.

[@chezmoi42]

I'm hoping we'll see the release with Meg, since she did Maccas from this aviary the other day.

[@Laura-tp8wz]

Awww Myrtle heal well!!!

[@rosesperfumelace]

She is so cute. 😍

[@anitamackinnon7975]

Aww she is beautiful!☺️❤️🦇🇨🇦 A few days at the spa and she is good to go!😉

[@JenniMeer]

I love how she didn’t want her nails done. 💅🤣🦇

[@lauramcdougal3952]

YEAHHHHH.

[@lymangreen5020]

Meg, good luck with Myrtle!! May she recover soonest and fly off to do bat things!!

[@barbararussell9757]

I absolutely love watching your videos. When I feel downhearted about the world you and the bats cheer me up.

[@ja6368]

You’re THE MEGABATTIE❣️

[@chriscorbin2059]

It always makes me smile when a MOP asks if Meg has experience rescuing bats.

[@Megabattie]

It makes me laugh inside

[@FirefuryAmahira]

She's certainly a very polite little lady for an adult (or close to it?) with only a mild headache. That level of quiet cooperation (aside from grabbing everything) I would have figured from a bat that had *really* knocked itself into next week or a juvie who was firmly in that "I have no idea what's going on and have no idea what to do so I'm going to do nothing" mode. Glad to see in the comments that you're expecting to release her today, though Maccas' fantastic takeoff is going to be a tough act to follow!

[@Megabattie]

I love the hard releases; it's going to be tomorrow (Monday morning AEST) because the labyrinth is too busy today; too many people.

[@Courtney8240]

At one point she’s stretched out like a star fish. She’s beautiful. 🥰🦇

[@dazylulu1832]

Hello from Texas. These bats are fascinating and beautiful! I love how sweetly you talk to them. You can tell how much you love them. Thank you for the as well as for what you do.

[@tecacotes]

💝💝🤗

[@carnerageno]

Hopefully they added some bat friendly, bat environments to the park, great learning tool. It makes me feel better when you talk to the animals, thank you!

[@Megabattie]

I like to talk with the batties; it does several things, and one is to get them used to human talking noise, and the other is keep up a constant reassuring tone and conveying approval the entire time. I know they can't speak English but they can speak tone of voice, and intent behind my actions.

[@MC-qb1jg]

It's wonderful you take such good care of these bats. Over building and invading wildlife spaces needs to stop. In Florida, the construction is out of control. We are fighting the over growth.

[@Megabattie]

Too many people in this world all wanting to be in the same place. The housing crisis here is monumental; everywhere is going up up up, and not enough infrastructure to support the growing population centres. It's a nightmare. The building adjacent to our (small) apartment block went for 1.3 million 12 months ago, and it's a tiny terrace house which was derelict and has a tiny backyard. It's 3 rooms long, and that's it. It's ludicrous to pay so much money for so little.

[@cleckie100]

❤

[@denisestover2416]

Meg, you are the triager 😉 ~~~OR~~~ Meg, the "tree•ah•jger" 😅😂😄😁 yes, I am easily distrac............SQUIRREL!!! Thanks for sharing! I wish I lived there in Sydney so I could do what you do! I just found out that we have a few GHFF's at our tiny zoo and I'm going to see them! I'm so, SO very ExCiTeD😊😊😊

[@Megabattie]

Great re the FFs at your zoo.

[@PaulG.x]

6:06 I think the correct term is "octopodic" Is micro-chipping a new thing you are doing on rescues? I haven't seen you do it routinely before.

[@wildflower1397]

Not octopusish? 😂

[@Megabattie]

I like octopussy better; it has pizzazz. I don't microchip at rescue, but we do microchip the bats to be released just before the hatch is open. The chips cost us about $4 each so if the bat isn't releasable we don't want to waste the money. They have to have passed a flight test first, but even though Myrtle hasn't been flown I thought that a positive ID was better than nothing. I don't know what's happened to my stash of collars but they've disappeared and the carer doesn't have any more (or can't find them) and the paint markers are only temporary. I couldn't release Kirbi because she got her paint off and the carer didn't know which one she was.

[@anyagetman8596]

@@Megabattie can we order you more collars? What material, thickness, diameter, fastener?

[@wildflower1397]

@@anyagetman8596 If you look in the description of each Megabattie video, you will find information about how to donate to her. :)

[@anyagetman8596]

@@wildflower1397 sometimes she doesn't have time to chase down the item

[@Sarah.Riedel]

She truly must think she's been abducted by aliens LOL

[@thechariotcard]

How do you use the data to collect in your notebooks? Are the data v transcribed into a sheet? Who does that? (Tedious) and then how is it used to help the bats?

[@Megabattie]

It's my own personal database and my day to day records of what I do. I fill out an online database for each bat with my organisation. It's better to have a hardcopy, because I accidentally deleted 4 years of my personal online database and didn't notice for a few weeks.

[@LS-um3zq]

Just wondering, is there any chance that the rabies virus can be transmitted to other bats through sharing the tube of glucose?

[@Megabattie]

I generally clean the tubes and squirt out a little of the glucose at least daily, and if I get a bat I think is really iffy I might throw away the tube if there's not much left in it. I don't know if it can be transmitted.

[@cyana5867]

I’m thinking that mandarin slices after juice tastes too tart

[@Megabattie]

Mandarins are really sweet, which is what they like about them - and they're in juice so it's really sweet as well.

[@missnaomi613]

🦇🥺🙏❤

[@anyagetman8596]

Will they give Myrtle extra fat (yogurt?) to gain weight? Besides Meep's old gf coming back to visit with his baby, have any microchipped come back to be rescanned and recognized?

[@Megabattie]

Banded bats have come back into care (none of mine), however microchips are invisible, and not everyone has a scanner, so often we don't know their fate. Eventually all the batty people will have scanners and register any returnees, however the public won't report dead bats because they can't see if it has a microchip, only if it's banded, so they can't see a reason to report it.

[@tinawitte420]

0:29 "I can cope with a playground" - I don't think so! Be honest with yourself! 😋 Myrtle probably checked out the playground to see if they were adhering to inclusivity rules to make sure it's bat-friendly so she can take her kids there. But then she zigged instead of zagged... the age-old story... So nice how the builder cared for her!

[@Megabattie]

I can cope awesomely with a playground for human; it's not somewhere I will ever go, and since it's not a 10 (or 20) storey apartment block, I'm all for it. The more green space, the better.

[@толикеремин]

2:16-2:22-мышь:все свободны, я пошла! 😀😀

[@толикеремин]

2:02-2:13-милаха😘

[@толикеремин]

18:10-как вы их различаете? Их так много..

[@Megabattie]

Размер, пол, окраска, ошейники, повязки, цветные ногти на ногах или чипирование. Я мог бы сказать, был ли это мой вольер, но я не работаю в этом вольере, поэтому найти мою летучую мышь можно по ошейнику, окраске, полу, полосе, микрочипу или цветным пальцам.

[@толикеремин]

18:42-18:50-very cute 😘 А почему она не орет?? Значит, с ней все хорошо?

[@Megabattie]

Она очень спокойна и слегка контужена. За время пребывания под опекой у нее развилось больше отношения

[@толикеремин]

@@Megabattie отношения к кому? К вам?

[@Megabattie]

@@толикеремин как правило, они развивают больше отношения и уверенности во время пребывания под опекой, после того как они оправляются от шока от несчастного случая, спасения и похищения бледным бесшерстным гигантом.

[@joerudnik9290]

What a valuable service you provide, not only for the bats, but involving the public. The knowledge you give, is a wonderful connection to nature!!!🥲💔😮🥰

[@julianneboys4062]

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