Hi all, First I want to apologize for taking up list space for semi-personal topics
but I don't know how else to reach the other Boot Campers yet. For those...
Are you located in CA? Perhaps you can contact this woman and find out exactly where in the state she is located. She is trying to find out where the bats...
For those of you who have been asking me for literature citations regarding innate feeding behavior of hand-raised bat pups, the paper I wrote with Dr. John...
Barbara
batdoc@...
Jul 2, 2005 12:20 am
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So far this has been a really strange year for me. Normally I would get free-tails with a few myotis and MAYBE another species thrown in for confusion. This...
Hi Barbara, I am in northern CA in the mountains halfway between Nevada City and
Downieville. I suppose the nearest (50 mi. away) place, that people would...
Has anyone ever had a "runt" bat? My tiny little myotis is starting to get fur. He is growing but he is awfully tiny. One of his ears appears to be folded...
I've had red bat runts before, and last year, Marilyn got in what she said had to be a red bat dwarf (No pictures, and it died, unfortunately.). I think runts...
I had 2 bbbs last year that I would classify as runty. They did not thrive and were smaller than their companions. I had a heck of a time keeping them going. I...
Dick and Cindy have a runt western pipistrelle. He was born to the mother who had her wing broken in a mist net in Nevada, about a week after we all worked to...
Our Animal Control in San Diego is very helpful, and has even transported bats once in a while. We get a lot of referrals from them, as they don't want to kill...
Hi, I am not sure who I heard it from ...whether it was by word of mouth or if someone on here mentioned that bats do not chew through newspaper. I was...
A couple of observations about innate feeding behavior in big browns: A few years ago, I released several hand-raised pups into a maternity colony in a nearby...
I wanted to let you know that all of the bats are gone. The mother with 3 babies took all of them and the mother with 4 babies took all of them. I did a search...
I consider us truly blessed here in Oklahoma. The people at our Health Department have brains. There are issues on which I don't always completely agree with...
http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,2545,TCP_16736_3892828,00.html Remaining baby bats no longer falling from roof of retirement community west of...
You are SO lucky!!! Only two of my mother red bats have taken all of their pups this year. Maybe mother Seminole bats are more stable and secure than reds. ...
We have a male pip from last year's babies who is teensy even for a pip. He doesn't fly very well and has demonstrated no desire to catch his own food on the...
Batmam
batmam@...
Jul 2, 2005 3:26 pm
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Our animal control has instructions from the Contra Costa County health department to pick up and euthanize bats for testing. I had a rehabber at a school try...
World Bat Liners, Do you remember my little red bat pup with the lumps on her forearms? She also had a leg she wouldn't use. I couldn't decide if she had MBD...
Following is the response I received from the gal in California referred by BCI. Fort Bragg is about a day away from here, not because of the distance as much...
Good for you and the little one. Rosemarie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
MYOTIS227@...
Jul 2, 2005 8:23 pm
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Hi WBLiners About a year ago I had my first microbat (a miniopterus schreibersii) and it was a very difficult time. I got lots of help from the WBLiners, ...
Thank you for those kind words Storm, it is always nice to hear of success stories from the other side of the world. My flight cage is 2 metres high so I just...
what i usually do is get up early in the morning and get them. they are cold and barely moving by then. that is also when i choose to do toenail clipping or...
List - any place on the Internet showing pictures of pups (and adults) of the different species? Sometimes, I really have a hard time telling the difference...
I asked about catching bats up after test flights. Wendy said: My flight cage is 2 metres high so I just wait until they stop flying and go torpid then pick...
Hi everyone, I feel sick to my stomach. I came downstairs this morning and found my pug chewing on the remains of a baby. I feel horrible and I am really ...