Baby bats loooove their dummies, pacifiers

To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email As flyingfox carers we do our best to replicate the very close and precious mother, baby bond when an orphan comes into care. This includes providing a dummy, pacifier which is one of the necessities of life when you are a baby bat. Mother raised babies cling to one of two under wing nipples, each located deep in a wing pit. Baby flyingfoxes hang on tightly to their mum for the first four to five weeks of life and they fly out with mum on her nightly foraging expeditions. Once baby gets a little to large to fly with, it is left in a creche tree with other youngsters of a similar age and mum returns during the night to feed and warm her baby. Most orphaned bats love their dummy and we also place our orphans on a mumma roll which replicates mum s body before wrapping them in a soft cloth which is similar to mum s wings. All in all, it s a recipe for success and thousands of baby flyingfoxes are raised this way in Australia each year.