Charlotte the orphaned baby flying-fox enjoys a massage

One of the duties of raising well adjusted orphaned flying-foxes is ensuring that they are stroked and loved just as they would be if they were mother raised. Tactile and attentive, mother flying-foxes adore their babies and make sure they are warm, clean and fed. Flying-foxes are born with no belly fur and this enables them to absorb radiant heat from their mothers bodies as they are unable to regulate their own body temperature. As they mature, belly fur gradually sprouts and by the time babies are aro