Con-bat-ulations on expanding the colony of these critically endangered cute critters! Hopefully, this will mean plenty more bat babies next year, bolstering those numbers in captivity and ensuring a backup population is ready to hopefully be released back into the wild one day! 🦇🤞🏻😊
Beautiful Bats, love these majestic flyers. Any chance you could share more videos of them? I'm in the US and unfortunately unable to visit your wonderful Space for the Flying-foxes. I've watched and enjoyed all of your videos about them so thank you for sharing those.❤ If possible it would be AMAZING if could post more Flying-Fox videos ~🎉
Hi Maxine, Great to see you now have another 8 Livingstone bats. Possibly more pups in the near future as they are mostly females. You all did a super job of unloading and settling into their quarters so quickly. Looking forward to seeing them next May when we are back in Northumberland. I am also looking forward to seeing the red squirrels when we visit.
Fantastic to see the growing conservation efforts for these guys! I’m a rescuer/carer for flying foxes here in Australia, and we often will take the entire transport crate into the aviary (a low-ceiling aviary where one can still reach toes/thumb claws), open the transport crate up, and allow the bats to climb out on their own accord. Once they’re out of the transport crate it’s then much easier to observe their posture and behaviour, and then scoop them up in a towel to handle/check over.
I know what you mean! We can do this with our normal bat crates which is handy, however, these big egg crates will not fit through any doors so we have to grab them out of the crates. Luckily enough, these big transport crates aren’t ours and we have more usable ones for when we need them. Well done for everything you do with rescuing bats - thats so amazing 🫶🏻
@@NorthumberlandZoo I thought that might’ve been the case (that the crates wouldn’t fit) ♥️ It’s a learning for us when designing new aviaries; big airlocks!
While I feel bad for the bats that probably were scared during this transfer (couldn't be helped obviously) I couldn't help but laugh at the constant little honks they were giving as you guys were trying to untangle two of them from each other
We are looking forward to the day when your home grown bats are used to help sustain the wild population - assuming that's what your intentions are. Getting them out of their travelling cages isn't a job I'd like to try though!!
More bats! Wow. Love it!!!
🖤🦇🖤🦇🖤🦇🖤🦇🖤🦇🖤🦇
3:49 Well , a canine silhouette was the nearest thing to a Flying - Fox , or as the Germans call them a Flughunde (Flying Dog)
how exciting, the bats will be happy
Con-bat-ulations on expanding the colony of these critically endangered cute critters! Hopefully, this will mean plenty more bat babies next year, bolstering those numbers in captivity and ensuring a backup population is ready to hopefully be released back into the wild one day! 🦇🤞🏻😊
This is wonderful news! I am sure the male bats are excited to see the arrival of new lady bats. I hope to see many new pups in the future. 🦇❤️🦇❤️🦇❤️🦇
Beautiful Bats, love these majestic flyers. Any chance you could share more videos of them? I'm in the US and unfortunately unable to visit your wonderful Space for the Flying-foxes. I've watched and enjoyed all of your videos about them so thank you for sharing those.❤ If possible it would be AMAZING if could post more Flying-Fox videos ~🎉
@@EleniEliades_ I second this request.
Hi Maxine,
Great to see you now have another 8 Livingstone bats. Possibly more pups in the near future as they are mostly females.
You all did a super job of unloading and settling into their quarters so quickly. Looking forward to seeing them next May when we are back in Northumberland.
I am also looking forward to seeing the red squirrels when we visit.
Yay bats! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇💕💕💕
Fantastic to see the growing conservation efforts for these guys!
I’m a rescuer/carer for flying foxes here in Australia, and we often will take the entire transport crate into the aviary (a low-ceiling aviary where one can still reach toes/thumb claws), open the transport crate up, and allow the bats to climb out on their own accord.
Once they’re out of the transport crate it’s then much easier to observe their posture and behaviour, and then scoop them up in a towel to handle/check over.
I know what you mean! We can do this with our normal bat crates which is handy, however, these big egg crates will not fit through any doors so we have to grab them out of the crates. Luckily enough, these big transport crates aren’t ours and we have more usable ones for when we need them.
Well done for everything you do with rescuing bats - thats so amazing 🫶🏻
@@NorthumberlandZoo I thought that might’ve been the case (that the crates wouldn’t fit) ♥️ It’s a learning for us when designing new aviaries; big airlocks!
Wow! Fantastic ❤❤❤ Do you envisage any issues mixing the two groups?
Hopefully not! A lot of these bats already know each other 🥰
Quite a task to get them all out. At least they are in a great place
Lovely Bats. Can those ones see in daylight?
Yep,Big Beautiful Orange Daytime Eyes,perfect for Eating lots of Fruit🍈🦇🍌😊❤
@@simongolding2058 Aw good for them.
Yep the enclosure is in the daylight unlike most bat enclosures
Aw I love them
While I feel bad for the bats that probably were scared during this transfer (couldn't be helped obviously) I couldn't help but laugh at the constant little honks they were giving as you guys were trying to untangle two of them from each other
We are looking forward to the day when your home grown bats are used to help sustain the wild population - assuming that's what your intentions are. Getting them out of their travelling cages isn't a job I'd like to try though!!