There’s A Bat Hospital In Australia That Takes In Abandoned Baby Bats

[KamaAina]

http://www.boredpanda.com/abandoned-baby-bat-pup-tolga-bat-hospital/

If you think bats are terrifying, vampiric creatures of the night, you’ve got them all wrong. The abandoned bat pups being taken care of at the Tolga Bat Hospital in Atherton, Australia are proof that baby bats can be just as adorable as any kitten or puppy.

The fruit bat pups at the Tolga Bat Hospital in the Atherton Tablelands are brought in when they are afflicted by tick paralysis or when their mothers have died or become too ill to feed them (often from the same disease). Volunteers at the hospital nurse the bat pups back to health and then release them into the wild. The hospital also serves as a sanctuary for bats who have retired from zoos.

[Coventina]

1. Argh!! Cuteness overload!!!

[Skittles]

7. YES, NEEDS A WARNING!!

JEEZ!!!

[Fla Dem]

2. Awww, little puppies with wings. nt

[passiveporcupine]

13. They look like little joeys to me

Absolutely adorable. I love my little brown bats here too, but I'd love to raise a baby fruit bat.

[trueblue2007]

3. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, i want a baby bat

[livetohike]

4. They are so cute! I've been to the Atherton Tablelands, a long time ago now. Went on a river cruise

with a biologist and the boat stopped at a place where they had fruit bats and explained all about their lives. Loved seeing them up close and this picture reminded me of how cute they were .

[starroute]

5. Fruit bats are the cute fuzzy ones

They may not even be directly related to the insect-eating and vampire bats, which are the ones most people find scary.

Baby vampire bats are kind of cute in their own googly-eyed way, but they do take a bit of getting used to.

[trof]

6. I am OUTRAGED!

What kind of bat would EVER abandon a baby bat?
I know I wouldn't.
These criminally neglectant bat mothers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!
The bat fathers too!
I'm glad those babies are now in child protective custody.

[ffr]

12. You read too much.

[niyad]

8. overdosing on cute here!!

[CrispyQ]

9. I follow them on FB. They are so adorable!

Kick for cuteness!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. Me too! they're so lovable.

There's one in Cool, Texas too.....

I'd love to go be a Bat Rehabilitator...but there are too many creepy crawlies there....

And Australia has giant spiders.

[a la izquierda]

17. Hell no to the spiders.

Yick.

[a la izquierda]

16. Me too. I was so sad when Miss Charlotte (I think that's on Batzilla's page)...

had to be euthanized last week.

I love bats. They are a power symbol in the Maya world (the Maya word for bat is zotz).

[Hoppy]

10. Shouldn't those wrappings be pinned upside down?

BTW, notice the claws on that one sucker.

[MerryBlooms]

14. Aww, little sweethearts!

[ChazInAz]

15. I really like the leathery-winged little guys.

The middle one, staring at the camera, cracks me up for some reason.
Pictures like this explain why Sir Christopher Lee, noted bat person, once referred to them as "rather dear little creatures".