Rescuing a flying-fox from beside a swimming pool: this is Boyce
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2018
- Boyce is a Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who was trapped in a pool enclosure. He had nothing to climb onto to get enough height to escape. He will be in care with a wildlife carer for a couple of days to see if he's OK. If he's fine, he'll be released this week. If he's not OK it will become obvious in the next 24 hours. He may have hit his head. He may have inhaled pool water. At this stage it's too early to tell what his story is, and what injury, if any, he has.
Update: Boyce was released 3 days after coming into care. He was fine. There's a video of his release up. 
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Right when I thought flying foxes could not be any cooler... one of them freaking swims!
Ikr!!!
Exactely! I thought as soon as the bat touched the water he would realise he made a big mistake, but he took it like a champ and just started to paddle....He was like: " Hell yeah, just watch, you won't get me anyway, so what do you do now!?"
What's next? They walk with their wings??? D:
virtually all mammals can swim
It is pretty cool, though personally, I find the fact that owls can do it too. Wildlife Aid has a video of a release gone wrong where one of the young owls they released flew down and accidentally landed in a pond. One of the rescuers was all set to swim out and get him, but he swam to them instead and was completely docile when they picked him up, wrapped him in a jacket, and took him back to the center for the night.
I just love the way you talk to the bats just like you were talking to a pet or a human baby.
Well partly I talk for the video, and partly for the MOPs (members of public), and partly to make a monotonous tone for the bats so they just get used to me and me talking.
New Olympic discipline: 100 meters batty stroke.
Or the Batterfly
Good one
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I hope he is okay as that "chase scene" was hilarious.
He's doing well.
I may be able to release him in the next few days if the carer thinks he's OK to go.
Bat: I AM DARKNESS!!! LEAVE MY PRESENCE FILTHY HUMAN!!!
Meg: Nice swimming motion ❤️
LOLLL
so, Aquaman could easily beat Batman just by using swimming pool.
Nice smooth rescue . Loved the way Master Boyce swam, very very elegant indeed ! Glad you didn't fall in the pool Megabattie !
I don't like to get wet, and there was very little poolside manoeuvring room.
I could've grabbed him but really he was going to corner himself eventually and the tiles were smooth so he wasn't going to graze himself on them.
Yeap, noticed that there was very little space around that pool . I probably would have finished in the pool swimming with Boyce lol .
Louve Rousse something tells me falling in the pool with a flying fox is like a cat falling in your bathtub: screaming,splashing,clawing and bleeding( on the humans part)
Louve Rousse, I love your profile picture
He did a great job of swimming! Reminded me of the breast stroke.
It was brilliant seeing you give him enough room to maneuver, and to unhook his toenails from between the wooden planks in his attempts to avoid you. Going into the corner to BE cornered for easier picking up.
He’s beautiful, as are all flying-foxes!
Well done, dear Meg!
Boyce was hellllllbent on making you work for this rescue, bless him
Boyce was quite the little batty Olympic swimmer! I've never seen a bat swim before and never thought about it. They can get around pretty well in a calm pool. Hoping he's doing well! ❤️
I love how you talk to the bats. You should narrate a children's bat story.
That is an excellent idea!!
Omg I would Love that
Not narrate a book but WRITE a book which could be educational.about bats. The profit can go to bat rescues, needed equipment, supplies, etc.😄.
Boyce is a cutie. Glad Boyce is ok! Thank you!
Olympic swim team potential there...extra points from the judges for having a bat on your relay team. Boyce can go third and swim freestyle for Australia.
Thank you for helping Boyce'. You are very gentle and calm with these rescue animals and they respond to your voice.
This is one of my favorite videos from you, because it shows how caring and deeply intelligent you are.
Mmm, in what way does it show my intelligence?
I absolutely adore bats , I live in Puerto Rico and theirs a ton of them , I wish their would be a bat rescue center here but their isn’t ! I would defiantly love to volunteer and learn how to handle and rescue them ! They are my favorite animal ❤️❤️❤️ Lots of blessings to you , and thank you for being such a lovely person and rescuing these baby’s ❤️
💔💔💔💔💔
Great footage of swimming bats. At my family's forest cabin, at the lakeside, bats show up frequently on summer nights to engage in mind-bogglingly low-flying and lightning fast ballets of mosquito-catching, and I've always wondered how the poor things fare when they hit the water. I guess they'll be fine without me worrying.
Wow, they swim! Of course they do, doesn't every native Australian hehe? Well, with those swim strokes, if it was an American bat, I would have named it Phelps or Phelpsie, but for Australia it looks like you have 2 top male swimmers: "Leisel Jones has won nine Olympic medals, equalling Ian Thorpe as the most won by any Australian." So that's just in case you get another male swimmer & you're stuck for names. But we don't want to leave the females out either so we have: "Stephanie Rice, winner of three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics, including the medley double." These little sweethearts are so awesome, I wouldn't be surprised if they play Quidditch @ night while we Muggles sleep :)
I've called a bat Thorpie before. And one called the Thorpedo
Well in the US, we have a few fish eating bats that can somewhat swim well, but then again, they are bats.
@@hunterowl1756 Yes we have myotis as well - they generally have large feet so they can drag them along the surface of the water in flight and snag any tiny fish or crustaceans, flip them into the membrane around their tail and enclose it till they're in a position to eat it.
Leisel Jones is a woman. Unless I read your comment wrong she isn't a male swimmer.
He tried to hard to get away. He was not wanting help today.
But he was trapped so I could take my time and not get wet.
Megabattie
Yeah luckily you were just as stubborn as he was and got him. I hope hes doing ok.
Artsy Scrub are you a vegan?
@@vlonejacket5476 lmao that comment was two years old, and i think she was simply commenting on how the bat was scared not that it shouldn't get help.
Clowns United some of these guys are idiots
When you realize that this type of bat is just a breed of puppy, possum, bird, cat. The ultima animal.
xChubbyDuckyx ww The Ultima Weapon
@Death Zone No. They shared a common ancestor though about 85 MYA. all except the possum and birds belong to the clade _Scrotifera_ . you can't breed them because they have different numbers of chromosomes and diverged millions of years ago.
"He just snookered himself."
*Game set and match, Megabattie.*
🤣
mixed sports? Oops
@@Megabattie Was it mixed? I had no idea. I'm really bad at sports terminology.
I just know that seeing that line made me burst out into giggles.
Your videos always make me smile. 😀
this woman is such a love! bless her-)
bloody brilliant. always makes my whole day when I see another member of the tribe of human beings save a life.
It’s so amazing on how he did with his hooks, a smart fella right there.
That bat is more graceful than I'll ever be.
Recommending this on March 2020. . .
*Ok RUclips has a very dark sense of humour*
I think people might looking for bat tagged content in all of sudden, that's all.
Or the AI followed the bat tagged news.
Calla chontryhuman
I see it as a positive way to get people to think hard about bats. Especially, since scientists now think that the virus possibly went through several animal species before it jumped to humans.
@@melissajarvis4829 It came from a US funded lab in China.
I love how they relax once they're wrapped up.
Esther Williams eat your heart out. Hopefully Boyce isn't too much the worse for his dip in the pool and will make a quick recovery.
Esther Williams? No!
This is Australia, Annette Kellerman!!!
chatchienne My mistake. Anita Kellerman eat your heart out. Though interestingly enough, Williams played Kellerman in the biopic Million Dollar Mermaid.
Thank you for saving him
I hate having to watch you answer all these mal-informed and downright stupid questions and statements here. I think you handled this very professionally and what your doing is a godsend :). Keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks, but daily idiotic questions are part and parcel of YT life.
And from MOPs (members of public) - but this something I need to do with a degree of patience (which is not really my forte), because it changes people's minds about bats.
Wonderful update 👍
He scrambles so well, he could’ve been named Eggs. 😁
this woman is full of love to take care the animal.so amazing
❤❤❤ Thank You.
Awe he looks like a little black chihuahua with wings. He is so cute 😍
Aww look at the lil flying doggo's face!
Happy the bat ended up okay. I found it so funny at your tone when you were obviously impressed by his swimming! Lol :D Besides all that, I have pool envy. What a cool looking little pool.
Well I do like to appreciate style and class wherever I find it, and a bat swimming isn't something I see often.
I live in Southwest Montana USA up in the mountains. We have little bats called Little Brown Miotis, very small, maybe mouse size, furry, color of dark chocolate. Most of us have above-ground swimming pools, and we have to put floating bat islands in them. If a bat as it swoops down to get a drink, miscalculates, and ends up in the water, it can swim over an island, climb up on it, and eventually take off again from what looks like a bird perch. Little Brown Miotis are endangered in this part of Montana. They eat mosquitoes and are important natural controls on those pests. We have 5 bats per square mile, and we should have 10 times that many. We all do our part to help these wild creatures, and they help us in return.
That's fabulous you have such a thing as floating batty islands for them to get out of the pool.
We have myotis here - they're fishing bats. They have large feet so they can fly and skim the water and skim off tiny insects and crustaceans, grab with their rake like feet, and flip into their tail membrane so they can fly off and eat it. Love myotis.
He did some great swimming and getting him out self out again
Running. Really cute
That's a strange pool enclosure, I bet poor Boyce didn't even see there was glass surrounding it. But at least the slippery corners let you catch him where he couldn't grab anything. He's beautiful, I hope he didn't get too much chlorine while he was swimming. Amazing how well they can swim!
The way he swam was cool. It was like he was slowly flying through the water.
Yeahh! The way he get into your lungs is also cool 👍
@@Liltaco1 Into my lungs?
@@KageMinowara you don't get the joke
@@KageMinowara i dont know ither what he is talking about
nice rescue! especially the chasing part :)
That is SO COOL watching him swim like a natural wow 😍
Btw I know he shouldn’t have been swimming but still 😍
They can swim quite well and very elegantly, but it's a place where they can be predated on so they're not fond of being in the water
some individual pools have bleach i guess this one didnt , thank the Lord, you are great Meg very patient with these little people, its been years since you did this but you are still saving them in 2023 so thank you for your HARD work , you are fabulous🥰🥰🥰🥰
The pools are chlorinated.
How cool, I didn't know bats could swim and it really does look elegant when the bat was swimming. Thank you for posting. :)
Excellent swimming. I learn something new everyday.
His swimming was very graceful wow : )
Bats are honestly super adorable. I’ve never seen a real one, though.
Her calmness wraps you like a warm blanket... ♥️
Aquabat the sequel! Swimming escape foiled by Megabattie!! I think at the end, in the cage, if Boyce had had a tin cup, he would have been raking it across the bars!
koalaranian AHAHA! Really, the swimming was amazing!!!!
GREAT VIDEO THANKS
Aaawww the swimming
Omg he looks so funny dragging himself so fast! Great swimmer too! Lol. Big eyes! I like how they calmly size you up.
During this Coronavirus pandemic, this video recommended me, thanks RUclips!
3:45
Me : Umm.....
NoRe No. Shhhh
5:55
The one that came from China, I don't think YT allows people to say it so I'll just say it started in China and comes from bats.
"You'll never get me, copper! Attica! Attica!"
"No, I don't want a drink. Unless you have apple juice." 🤣🤣
You are more balanced than I...I would have worried about falling into the pool.
Very nice and fancy home 😳😳
She's got a very calming way about her
Sweet little soggy critter 😍 I love those bats so much!
That bat swims way better than I do! Have to go back and read the description but I hope he made it ok. Thanks Meg.🦇🐾😍
You can also search in the YT search bar for Megabattie/Boyce/Hard release for his release vid
@@Megabattie Ok. Thanks Meg🦇☺️
He's a beautiful swimmer.
Who new bats could be such graceful swimmers. Excellent form, 10/10
This reminds me of trying to get my cat in her carrier! She'll stick those claws anywhere to avoid going in.
he looks so cute hes like “but i wanna stayyyyy D:”
I'm learning so much thanks to your videos
So calm so caring😊
That reminder at the end is VERY IMPORTANT
Another Amazing Rescue 🤗❤❤
That stare of the bat is like
"What the heck is happening here????"
XD
Deus te abençoe sempre vocês viu beijos pra todos aí.
That was quite an example of the Bat Stroke! Be well !
So glad Boyce is ok!! ♡
He was released a few days ago. There is a video of it.
I so love to watch them swim :)
My favorite flying mammal the Australian Flying Fox! I know they are tropical but, they awesome little creatures. Thanks for your conservation effort.
They're not tropical - they're tropical and temperate.
Wow swims really good✨
Oh boy, here we go with the comments...
I think that you’re wonderful.
He is very handsome and cute! And very dextrous when walking with his little thumbs first.
In a way I like that they have to come up a bit before they can take off. That makes me feel that they are "relatives" (trust me, I will never try flying 😆, but if, I would need a VERY high hill to start from)
I only fly in my dreams
Awwww bless it so cute I love the way you talk to it
Damn that's a sick house.
The running was so cute
The bat is so cute!!!!
He looks very alert or is that stress look?
He is alert.
He's doing really well and may be able to be released in the next few days.
@@Megabattie so, when you release them, what do they do? do they live alone or join a group? because they live in groups
@@LauRa-re9un Have a look in the YT search bar for Megabattie/Boyce/hard release.
You'll see how we release them.
They live in colonies. I released him near a colony and watched him fly off into the trees where the other batties were.
They live in large colonies and they're quite mobile moving between colonies all up and down the coast. Colonies are like camping sites - everyone is welcome and just come and go as they please.
There is safety in numbers.
@@Megabattie Oh thank you very much, I apologyze I didn´t look at that. Thanks for the explanation about the colonies, I am happy they have that sense of community where everybody is welcome!! I am happy to know the bat is okey and free. You have such a heart!! =)
@@Megabattie where is the video of his release?
Very cute one little boy isn’t he?😄
Lol! Just found this video. Megabattie, thanks fur your patience in explaining viruses to those of us who are relative newbies you your channel.
This bat is soo cute looks like my pinscher that i have in home
Such a good swimmer!
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Wow. Never knew that they could swim! 🌞
They can, but they don't like being in the water - it's not their environment and they're subject to predation.
They bellydip in ponds and creeks and waterways for a drink, so they have to be able to swim to get out of the water if they miscalculate and don't do a dip and skim, but actually end up in the drink.
@@Megabattie They're amazing little creatures. 💜
I dont think i could ever be scared by a flying fox. These things are adoorable :D
They bite, they bite hard and they don't like to let go.
In addition, they may carry deadly viruses.
Don't fear them, but do respect them and they danger some of them may pose.
@@Megabattie I still dont think i'm afraid but getting bitten is probably the only cure for that. Not that i'm planning to disrespect them :D
@@damotoneko1500 Don't get bitten. The bats are killed and sent off for testing if you get bitten.
@@Megabattie I've never actually been close to a bat since i live in sweden but knowing a bat gets killed if i get bit. I aint for it.
Lovely.
That was pretty cool to watch her flying fox when I and then swim. What's even more cool? is the fact that you knew those people were pulling your leg. I think they were anyway. Especially the way you explained it LOL. Gotcha!
They weren't pulling my leg
I think this little fella is more a swimming-fox than a flying-fox xD
Good pun though! XD
So anazing to see him swim, as uou say so elegant. But his movement on the ground had me gob smacked.
that thing huge ! i only encountered a small one
Deer gets trapped in pool: Stuck forever and must be hauled out
Bat, a _flying_ mammal, with big ungainly wings and backwards feet, gets trapped in pool: Crosses the pool and pulls himself out like an olympic gold medalist
Amazing
I love the way you talk to the bat 😂
Very nice video!
I talk to them all like that. It seems to work best if you just keep up a chatter to them which is fairly monotone and has an approving tone, and they kind of get used to it.
Has an approving tone. That is adorable!
I did not know they can swim that is to cool.
So cute
The way he crawls kyfykfkyf