Baby flying-foxes flapping on the airer: Baldrick and Piccolo

Daily life clips: Baldrick, the most recent and youngest of my babies, makes an appearance for some playtime on the airer. Baldrick is a Black Flying-Fox (pteropus alecto) orphan who was found on his dead mum 5 days ago. After an initial slow and difficult few days in care, he’s cheered up and is feeding well and asserting his independence. He’s always out of his wraps in the incubator in the morning and he’s an octopus to wrangle. He still has a bare belly and hasn’t yet started thermoregulating, so he only hangs on the airer for a few minutes to stretch and do flappies, then back to bed in the incubator to keep him warm. He’s now 2.5 weeks old. Piccolo is 4.5 weeks old now and has started to assert his independence as well. He is on the airer for a few hours per day though back to bed for the nights. The other babies are Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (yes, she’s the one I forgot), Uffish (Fish), Juniper, Eiffel, Inky Pinky, and our new little boy Blackadd