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Cute orphan flying fox (bat) inverts: this is Trappie

4,182 views · Published 25 March 2014 · 0:24 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: Megabattie · 2014 · Pets & Animals

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Bats hang by their thumbs to go to the toilet.

Trappie is an orphan Grey-Headed Flying-Fox around 3-4 weeks old in this video.  He was raised in care then went to creche and was released.  
He's demonstrating how bats do a wee or a poo.  They hang by their thumbs and let it all fall out, then do a quick little foot flip and shake, and pull their feet up and hang by their feet again.  
The babies know how to do this from quite a young age.  They don't need to be taught.

When the hand raised babies are 3 months old, they go into a creche, where they join other orphans and form a group.  They learn batty etiquette and how to live in a batty society.  They shrug off their human mums and want to be with the other batties.  When they are emotionally and physically ready, and uninjured, and around 4-5 months old, they’re  put into a release cage under a colony and they can integrate into the colony and fly out with the wild bats.  If they can’t find enough food, they can always come back to the cage for a feed.  Support feeding is put up on the outside of the cage for as long as they are coming back and eating it.  When the colony flies out for winter, they have fully integrated and fly out with them.

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