Rescuing a flying fox found on the ground: this is Mimsy

Mims is an adult female Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who was found early in the morning on the ground, by security guards at the university. They managed to get her into a box, out of which she climbed, then covered her with a milk crate in which she hung till rescue. The local currawongs were busy harassing her even in her crate when I arrived. I think they’d been pecking at her feet. Mimsy, like most of the females at this time of the year, is pregnant. Often they lose their baby in the first 36 hours because of the stress of their accident and capture. I gave her a small dose of diazepam from the vet to see if I could keep her calm enough to hold onto her pregnancy. With the adrenaline of the accident, and harassment by the birds, and the capture by a white mostly furless giant, her stress levels were at an all-time high, and I thought she would lose her baby, however she has managed to hang onto it for 3 days now so it’s likely she will deliver when the baby is ready for birth.