Rescuing a flying-fox on a back doormat: this is Tafia

[@kermifrog3983]

She is so smart. I don't think that I have ever seen them associate good stuff with the glucose tube so fast.

[@Megabattie]

The young ones usually learn quickly and judge my by my actions and the glucose rather than being particularly wary

[@cidercik]

3:11 love. Just no way anyone can't fall instantly in love. What a sweetheart.

[@mcrickard1]

Meg... you are so good with your batties! This rescue was fantastic. little Tafia was constantly assured that you were there to help... constant conversation, glucose, fluids, and most importantly your love! Please keep sharing your rescues.

[@tamarrajames3590]

I agree completely 🖤🇨🇦

[@findingteresa8524]

I had a black poodle named Murphy. He died 4 years ago and I still miss him. These bats faces and eyes look so much like him.

[@Megabattie]

Sorry about Murphy; you will always miss him but by missing him you will be remembering him.

[@findingteresa8524]

@@Megabattie ❤️

[@dariafriedrich4]

Meg, I love it when you talk to bats. I always wait for them to answer you. In a verbal sense.., because they always answer you non-verbally! They know you are helping them. This can be seen, for example, after Tafia found glucose herself!

[@Megabattie]

Smart girl, Tafia

[@GlitzyWitch]

She knew where that yummy glaucous was as soon as ypu put her down ❤ poor little lady , those bog beautiful eyes are like pools of ink, so beautiful ❤

[@karenannefromusa]

"I hate you! Don't touch me!...Oooo, that tastes sweet. Ok, maybe I won't kill you. I will just take a nap on this fuzzy stuffed.bear.". LOL

[@Megabattie]

It must be very confusing for the little ones to come into care and be treated well. They understand that capture might be horrible, but they don't think it might be OK.

[@redhorsburgh..2345]

Oh she is so smart and beautiful bright eyes... Tafia know just where the yummy food was. She could not be in a better place with a wonderful person.

[@montanacrone8984]

A nice Teddy to cuddle and cozy blankie! Life is good

[@tamarrajames3590]

And glucose and juice too lol.🖤🇨🇦

[@Elly-fm3nx]

Tafia seems so soothed by your gentle voice and yummy glucose! 🦇🩹💗

[@silky0439]

It always amazes me how intelligent they are. They come in terrified and within a matter of hours they understand that you are a friend and are helping them. Absolutely Brilliant!❤❤

[@oldgloryhillfarmturtlewoma9132]

She’s so cute when she inadvertently sees the tube of glucose and decides to help herself. Then you take her out of the incubator and she looks at you like “Oh it’s you, The-Bringer-of-Good-Stuff”. Bright eyed little girl.🥰

[@Megabattie]

yes it was funny and cute.

[@trixie9777]

You’re so wonderful to rescue these cuties. 🙏🏼 I love all of the detail you give I your descriptions, even including who the MOP was letting you in.

[@Megabattie]

I like tell the story and for you to be able to experience the rescue as I do, from my point of view.

[@piglette]

I love when they pop their little faces out of the blanket like HELLO! Makes me laugh every time. Lovely girl

[@tamarrajames3590]

Me too.🖤🇨🇦

[@katd367]

What a little cutie 💓 I'm so glad to be back and see Tafia she is stunning 😍 Meg you're still amazing and we know what you do is hard work, but you are helping them so much...I believe people that help especially animals and children will have a happy afterlife. 😊 Know you are loved and prayed for 🥰🙏

[@stvbrsn]

That was so cute when you flipped her over to do the subcut fluids, and the glucose tube was within range of her little snout! More of this please! And you were so sweet to indulge her! Thanks for what you do. And for the videos of what you do.

[@marionmuolo9321]

Just a quick word and not meaning to be picky but the word is subQ which is a short form for subcutaneous which means just under the skin. I work in medical.😁😁😊😊.

[@tinawitte420]

That was very cute indeed!!

[@stvbrsn]

@@marionmuolo9321 I get what you’re saying… but from context, did you get the idea that I *didn’t* know that the term I used (subcut) is short for subcutaneous? Also, I don’t work in medical, so I’m not hung up on “proper abbreviations.” Maybe your textbooks say subQ, but since Meg herself says “subcut fluids” quite often… I’m more inclined to stick with what works in context rather than be a stickler about the terms. I used to be more of that kind of stickler before I turned 50. Now context seems more important. Cheers!

[@georgia19801]

@@stvbrsn I worked in medicine and subcut was a common term used (I’m in the UK).

[@RenGraes]

Little Tafia was like "Ooh, sweet-water, can I have more?"

[@rebeccaweil1]

Tafia is secure and feels safe with your ministrations

[@adrijanacah1280]

She is adorable!🥰 With those beautiful eyes!😍Glad she is now in your care, the best! Thank you for the video!💝

[@lisablack9634]

"There is no biting Meg"...she is so adorable.

[@Megabattie]

Nobody takes any notice of Meg's dictums; they will always bite if they feel the need, and I will always cope.

[@nickjury5198]

Great news she is doing well. She certainly liked the glucose gel😎 Lovely seeing her fall asleep wrapped around flat teddy all warm and cozy, only earlier in the day she was lost in her thoughts as to what was going on, scared and confused as too what had happened to her🦇❤

[@lauramcdougal3952]

I just love the little Black Batties. She is adorable.

[@mbr7156]

that face ! the fangies... those eyes... >smitten

[@Megabattie]

She's young - has good teeth and most of her adult teeth have come in now she's 12 weeks old.

[@Catherine-hf6zc]

Those big, round beautiful eyes! Did she finish off that tube of glucose? So very dainty, no savage attacks on you or the tube. This one is going to be a heart grabber💖

[@tamarrajames3590]

She got my heart right away.🖤🇨🇦

[@trixie9777]

It’s amazing how quickly they adjust to you & not try to bite after only a few hours. Actually, she stopped trying to bite when you gave her subcut, even before the incubator nap.

[@Megabattie]

She's still young enough to be a little more trusting than the adults.

[@Mellie_H]

She's absolutely gorgeous

[@daynashallenberger6256]

I didn't read the report first to see that Tafia was doing well and when I saw her lying there i thought it would be bad. what a relief! She's gorgeous.

[@Megabattie]

She's gorgeous and it's a total surprise that she's OK

[@montanacrone8984]

Ohh, that glucose is hitting the spot

[@sonialignani]

She' s so sweet , She likes all that you give her, . The name Is perfect!! In Italy the same rum Is called Ratafià ( from black cherries)

[@alij7047]

Such a sweet little cutie! Thank you for taking care of her!

[@Cristiana-15_09]

The level of cuteness is killing me 😁 thanks for taking care of this sweethearts! 🙏🏼💖

[@twilacarson2308]

She has such big innocent eyes, so sweet and you just want to cuddle her and make her better. Poor little thing. So glad that she made it to you before anything else were to happen to her.

[@georgia19801]

Aw she’s a little beauty with big, bright eyes. I’m so glad to hear she’s doing well. Great job Meg.

[@Megabattie]

She's bossing the cage now

[@julianunes5516]

🤣

[@karenannefromusa]

​@@Megabattie😂

[@catherinehubbard1167]

How beautiful she is, and so dear. She figured out the glucose gel tube “blossom” in a snap, faster than I’ve seen before. Looked like she decided that with such loaded blossoms about, why bother with the work of chewing fruit. All good wishes to little bright-eyed Talfia. Yet another ace name, by the way.

[@tamarrajames3590]

The bit with the glucose tube was awesome, she is a clever little girl, as well as beautiful.🖤🇨🇦

[@BaronessErsatz]

Auntie Meg knows how to take excellent care of precious little princesses! Just ask around....

[@Dirty_Squirrell]

I think its darling how they mostly grab on to you after you've proven yourself to them by feeding and warming them.

[@elzaaltmann]

Gorgeous contrast of black fur with white teeth.

[@keldaogg2157]

Another beautiful bat

[@womanofsubstance8735]

Bat lickies and nom noms. So much cuter than hooman nom noms!

[@bloodworth2]

Poor little gorgeous baby. She's helpless and just has to go along with her captor. Thank God it's Meg and her angels. They will see her through this ordeal. As they always do. So thankful to you all.

[@bevakathedementedraccoon]

shes a stunner!! i think the nom noms with the tongue sticking out is my fav thing that the batties do.. it makes me go all mushy lol (that aint easy to manage!)

[@tamarrajames3590]

She got me from the first moment, so beautiful. When she saw the glucose tube after having some, and stretched out for it I was smitten. Great table manners too.🖤🇨🇦

[@bevakathedementedraccoon]

​@@tamarrajames3590 yeah she figured out where the yummy glucose came from pretty damn fast. "more please, just gotta get the lid off" lol

[@Kim-lc3fv]

Meg is in her element when a baby comes along. 😊 Only a few more months until the season starts.

[@Megabattie]

She's a very little juvie for this time of the year.

[@tamarrajames3590]

There seem to be a fair number of late babies this year.🖤🇨🇦

[@crochetology12]

She’s a beautiful battie! 💖

[@Omnihilo]

Little Tafia is so cute. 🥺 Bless. Happy to see she's doing well in care. 😊

[@Catlily5]

She looks almost like a mini bear! She has the shiniest eyes and has some fight in her!

[@janetsanders5356]

Bright eyes, Bright intelligence. Bright spirit ✨✨✨

[@eileenlester4342]

Gorgeous baby. 💜

[@FirefuryAmahira]

Aw, she's a total cutie! And quite addicted to the glucose gel once she got a taste it seems. 🥰 Great to hear she's doing well in care; I'm sure she will be MUCH better equipped to handle the big wide world on her second attempt once she's a little bit bigger and older!

[@Megabattie]

She will be in care until someone is driving north where she can be released in Spring with other late babies, or if our colony returns she may be able to be released with the other Blacks through the release cage near the colony.

[@tracyjacoby2382]

Re-watching in 03/2024. Beautiful Tafia is so very lucky to have had the Meg love and care!🖤🦇🤗💓

[@JenniMeer]

Tafia: FEAR ME!! Also Tafia: GLUCOSE!! Nom nom 😋

[@tracyjacoby2382]

Tafia is beyond gorgeous!!!🖤 Lovely eyes peeking out of the blankie!!🦇💕 You are their Angel & I thank you "as always", for EVERYTHING you do for them!!!🥰 Later I will toast to her good health & yours w/Bacardi rum🥃😉

[@janetsanders5356]

Now I'll have to see if the liquor she's named after is available here.

[@ladyrose358]

I wish I could move to Australia and take care of flying foxes.

[@Batlady]

Glad to hear Tafia is doing well now that she’s with the others she will be fine… great job Mega! I’m happy when there’s a survivor..❤️🦇🦇🦇🦇

[@ipoison3862]

I just loved watching this sweet little baby get help ❤️❤️❤️

[@SkitSkat674]

She was such a hungry little thing. I was worried at first she was seriously hurt but I'm glad she's ok and doing well.

[@billchessell8213]

Thanks Meg. Another life reprieved from the brink!

[@tammyd8787]

Lots of love from Manchester newhampshire . USA

[@jetpetty1613]

She's so beautiful....I love her name too! What a bright-eyed little battie 🥰

[@sarojinichaudhury179]

Tafia is another beauty ; (but who will understand her needs better than you )?

[@brendareed8412]

Poor little lady. She had a tiring day. I am so glad you could help her, Meg.

[@ffeff8353]

We all love a happy ending! What a cutie she is (I'm partial to the little black face)!

[@clarkelliott5389]

That little flying fox definitely has a sweet tooth! More glucose!

[@harrietking8768]

Oh Meg, she’s almost as beautiful as you! You really are an angel. Harriet xx

[@Megabattie]

Hi Harriet - Meg is definitely no angel, just an average person who is lucky to be able to do something she loves.

[@harrietking8768]

Oh Meg! Self deprecation will not work! Girl! You’re a fair dinkum Aussie angel/legend! Just gonna have to suck it up and accept this as the truth according to me! Much love, Harriet x

[@Megabattie]

@@harrietking8768 I'm not being self-deprecating, just realistic. I like doing what I do.

[@harrietking8768]

Oh Meg! I know! This is exactly why you are an angel! How about we agree to agree!?!? Lol H xx

[@nneeerrrd]

After some TLC and 6 hours in the incubator she's not bitey girl anymore 👏

[@nneeerrrd]

And a glucose gel did its magic ✨ of course :)

[@marionbowler5440]

You are simply amazing with your bats Meg, lots of love from Canada. 🧡🇨🇦🦇😊🍁

[@thraciangrapes]

Good job, Mommy! 👍 That little girl is a very feisty battie! 🤣

[@margaretwalker6168]

So lovely to watch, thankyou for sharing

[@wakanavkirachel8068]

The more I watch you the more I really appreciate you. Thank your for Your Heart.

[@Megabattie]

thanks

[@Lisa-eu9fy]

YAY! I love survivors! Good luck darlin girl!🦇💞💞🦇

[@Lisa-eu9fy]

Yet another perfect name too!👍🥰

[@zxyatiywariii8]

She's such an adorable little baby! ❤️🦇 I'm happy she's doing well, despite being very young for this time of year.

[@tamaragonzalez2227]

I keep forgetting it is winter there since I happen to be sitting in heat of 105F right now and was shocked to see you in a coat. LOL Tafia has the sweetest face.

[@Megabattie]

I don't wear coats, just a long sleeved t shirt and a vest if it's cold or I need pockets. It's usually somewhere between 10-20º C most days.

[@wmden1]

I have to agree that she was calmer and more laid back than usual and took to the glucose like it was candy. Glad she did so well. Those eyes almost always look so intelligent. I have often, especially in my younger days, spent afternoons, just before dark, watching small, insectivore bats fly, and sometimes tossing up small pebbles to watch them dive for them, I assume with their echo location. I wouldn't do it for long at a time, because I knew they needed to eat and not waste energy on pebbles, but it was interesting.

[@Megabattie]

They would have stopped of their own accord after finding them consistently all rocks and not food.

[@jenniferwarshiniack796]

Awwwwwwwwww 😘🦇🦇🦇🦇❤I love how you talk to your batties.🦇❣

[@Megabattie]

I like to talk to them and offer a continually reassuring tone of voice so they associate my voice with me and my actions rather than being scared if I talk when I have been silent. I also talk for the video

[@kristineteall368]

She’s a beauty! Hope she flourishes in care, as she seems quite relaxed with you already!

[@syrenamilani3115]

What a beautiful black beauty she is , & another blessing for them , & you ... 😍🖤🦇

[@nneeerrrd]

7:30 what a clever trick 👍☺️

[@moiraesfate1]

Oh Meg, you always make me want to give them a hug. So sweet.

[@graziaangelamagni7719]

She is such a beauty and so sweet, listening to you and knowing you were there for her, thank you, you are amazing and batties too.

[@gabrielsyt]

Hang in there Tafia.

[@dany.adelfinger]

She really liked the glucose. What a gorgeous little girl.

[@tamarrajames3590]

She liked the juice too, and ever so sweetly lapped away at both…no fanging, great table manners.🖤🇨🇦

[@dany.adelfinger]

She's a good girl 🙂

[@stvbrsn]

Wouldn’t you just love be inside her head for this whole process? At first complete fear. I don’t know what’s going on and I’m going to bite you. Then confusion. I don’t know what’s going on but this is delicious. Pretty soon it’s like, I don’t ever want to leave this wonderful giant who keeps putting delicious things in my mouth.

[@Megabattie]

I really do wonder what they think and how they process the entire event.

[@PK-oy4fe]

Hooray! Another adorable survivor ❤️ 😇❤️🎉🦇🖤❤️

[@noradinneen1]

How adorable! Thank-you for your work!

[@JadeStrawberry]

I love the Blackie Bats. Tafia is fond of the sweet jelly as are all bats. She's going to make all sorts of new friends. I've got to say though, the place you made the rescue, those steps and walkway. I started laughing watching you as I'm sure I saw these on an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. All you needed was loud footstep sounds, Strauss's Die Fledermaus playing, with Tafia's little face looking perplexed. 🦇

[@Megabattie]

LOL

[@tamarrajames3590]

Awesome!🖤🇨🇦

[@kevinmangan7124]

Gorgeous little sheila that 1

[@JF-kv1gm]

Tafia is adorable. Glad to read that she's doing well. Thanks, Meg!💗🙏🦇

[@tamarrajames3590]

Tafia is a real little charmer, I love the way she went for the glucose tube on her own while you were setting up her fluids. I’m happy she is doing well, and is hanging with the cool group. She seemed really twitchy at first, but you won her over completely with the glucose. This happy outcome is the best Birthday gift ever.🥂🖤🇨🇦

[@Megabattie]

Happy Birthday Tamarra

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@Megabattie Thanks Meg, I was hoping it would be a good one, (of course, I always am) but it was nice to have a win the day I add a year lol.🖤🇨🇦

[@sonialignani]

Happy birthday Tamarra

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@sonialignani Thank you Sonia 🖤🇨🇦

[@nedawilmhoff3599]

Glad she is doing well!

[@Sinshine151]

Thanks you for all the love and care you give the little bittens ❤️💛💛💛💛

[@AudreyLMcFarland]

So glad this is a happy rescue! Tafia is such a pretty baby!

[@gsdalpha1358]

What a gorgeous little girl! She certainly was quick to love the glucose tube - lol. The walkway green spaces of MOP's home were beautiful - but I can see where a bat - especially a young one - could find herself stranded. Thankfully, Tafia cooperated in her rescue so you avoided the haul away truck!

[@Megabattie]

The people on the driveway opposite were expecting some sort of truck because they had construction work going on there. They knew I was only going to be away for a few minutes, since it was only a pickup and not a chasing the bat around the yard.

[@gsdalpha1358]

@@Megabattie Ohhh ok. My befuddled brain interpreted truck as tow truck. A rescue turning into an impound would suck!

[@marionmuolo9321]

I can't describe how adorable this all is😇😇😇💜💙🧡💜💙🧡

[@kstormgeistgem461]

💓🦇❤‍🩹 do well little one and learn from this for when you're big n out in the wild again... humans n their creations are no place for batties.

[@paulg3336]

Lucky batty

[@Megabattie]

She is indeed and is hanging out bossing around the boys in her cage.

[@anitamackinnon7975]

Tagus is a beauty!!🫠🥰❤️🦇🇨🇦

[@pixelgoat7317]

Around the two minute mark...I was thinking,"hehe, you made a little battie ball" X3

[@lindam2090]

She is so beautiful. always happy when the MOP wants it rescued. Very lovely indeed

[@maryg8979]

25mid

[@Megabattie]

I suspect mostly they wanted the bat gone. They haven't phoned or asked how she is doing.

[@sonialignani]

@@Megabattie i suspect the same thing!! On the contrary i want the bats are rescued!!!

[@Sinshine151]

Awww, snippy princess.

[@MoonlitSelkie]

When I;m having an awful day, I too would like to be swaddled, held, and given food till I feel better 🥺

[@francesfarmer736]

Excellent! Very cute battle “Taffia” so would you say a “love child” born out of the regular mating season, 😆 interesting Terrace houses long & skinny with a sea view? … ….they call them shotgun houses in the south eastern part of the US ….because they are also narrow and long.

[@Megabattie]

It was a reasonably wide property and multi storey, so it was a big house on a long block. Tafia was just born out of season, reasons unknown. It's becoming more common, with the weirdness of the weather and increasing temperatures. Maybe mum bat lost her baby so got pregnant again to an opportunistic male

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@Megabattie Do the blacks and Grey headed flying foxes ever crossbreed? I wonder because some blacks appear to have a dark mahogany/rosewood ruff while others don’t.🖤🇨🇦

[@EagleSoul]

Tafia is super cute🥰. You got there right in time, she was extremely dehydrated. Was she able to pee? I remember that another battie didn't pee till you opened the tap😂😂. It's amazing how most of them🦇 become relaxed once they understand you are there to help 🥰. Thank you so much Meg 🤗. Cheers!!!

[@Megabattie]

I think she had been peeing down the back of the incubator.