10 Baby Bats
These fellows look happy snuggled in blanket-wraps, but what’s the story here?! Normally we’d be a bit leery of bats, especially since they’re known to carry rabies. Though, these cute pups are actually Fruit Bats being cared for by a Wildlife rescue shelter in Australia, and surely they’ve been tested.
The shelter takes in injured bats and orphaned babies, whose mothers died during storms or from diseases. Similar to human babies, they are comforted while swaddled and even given pacifiers! Eventually the Fruit Bats are released into the wild once they’re able to survive on their own.
Fruit Bats are the smallest of bat species. With fruit being a big part of their diet outside of flower nectar, these bats help distribute plants to other locations by carrying and spreading seeds.
