Baby Eastern Tube Nosed Bat: this is Wiggles

Wiggles is an Eastern Tube-Nosed bat who was rescued from a barbed wire entanglement. The carer thought she was young but didn’t know how to age her because these bat come into care infrequently and there are no reliable age charts. Due to age, dentition, lack of yellow pigment spots, 33gm/61mm she was aged as young - possibly about the same developmental age as a 10 week old Grey-Headed Flying-Fox. The carer has been feeding her 5 times a day with fruit feeds at night. Wiggles had a huge deficit in he