Pinkie Pie (the big brown bat) eats mealworms from a bowl.MOV

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A Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) in captivity seriously chowing down on a bowl of mealworms! 'The Bat Doctor'
www.royell.net/~draustin/bats.html

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  • No caro1llia, but I do have another video of her being hand fed pedialyte-dipped mealworms. I'll try to post it soon. Unfortunately, my last computer crashed recently and I lost most of my videos of her and several other bats that I helped to care for in the past.

  • Amazing! any video of Pinkie pie drinking water from the bowl?

  • @caro1llia No, but I do have another video of Pinkie Pie being hand fed pedialyte-dipped mealworms. I'll try to post it soon. Unfortunately, my last computer crashed recently and I lost most of my videos of her and several other bats that I helped to care for in the past.

  • do you have a non-release colony there? they are so cool i  wish i could help rehab bats, volunteer, etc!!

  • @grapesoda4me420 Not currently. There was a colony of three big brown bats that I assisted with overwintering that particular winter. 2 females and 1 male. The male acted like a jerk towards both females (kept wanting to pick fights) so he was housed seperately. He did fine that way. Pinkie Pie was little when she came in for overwintering. Normal adult E. fuscus wt = 20 g. She only weighed 15 g. She wouldn't eat for a whole 1.5 days either.

  • @grapesoda4me420 We had to $h!tcan the normal protocol of quarantining a new arrival for a minimum of 2 weeks prior to introduction into the colony. That would have meant risking losing Pinkie Pie, as she had no weight to give! So after 36 hours, she was housed with the larger female. Within a few hours, Pinkie was accepting food and water from the bat rescuers. Within a few days, she was also eating on her own as you see in this video. Success! ^v^

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  • @ryansheckler39 no, they only eat insects

  • Do she drink blood

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