{"id":330537,"date":"2025-12-06T01:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330537\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:26:11","slug":"black-blob-hanging-from-cherry-tree-is-actually-a-wild-animal-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330537\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Blob Hanging From Cherry Tree Is Actually A Wild Animal In Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, a woman named Sonia noticed a surprising black figure tangled in her cherry tree netting.<\/p>\n

\"batMeaghan Scott and Fae Pawley<\/p>\n

The animal \u2014 an adult grey-headed flying fox \u2014 had likely visited the tree in hopes of securing a tasty snack. Unfortunately, the bat soon got caught in the dangerous netting, and now she was injured and hopelessly trapped.<\/p>\n

Sonia contacted experts at The Wildlife Rescuers Inc<\/a>., who sent a team member Meaghan Scott to the scene along with Fae Pawley, of Fly By Night Bat Clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"batMeaghan Scott and Fae Pawley<\/p>\n

When Scott arrived, she explained to Sonia what went wrong. Sonia had been using illegal netting, which isn\u2019t available for sale in Australia, but which can be mistakenly purchased from online retailers like Amazon. Safe netting, Scott clarified, needs to have holes that are smaller than 5 millimeters.<\/p>\n

Scott and Pawley prepared a cage for the bat. Then they climbed their ladders, tools in hand. Scott grasped the bat firmly with a towel while Pawley carefully cut the netting away. Once untangled, rescuers wrapped the bat in a towel and began examining her for injuries.<\/p>\n

\"peopleMeaghan Scott and Fae Pawley<\/p>\n

The friendly bat quickly relaxed in her rescuer\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a funny thing \u2014 flying foxes understand that you\u2019re trying to help them astonishingly quickly,\u201d Pawley told The Dodo. \u201cWe often chuckle about the way that, much like a pet dog, once you offer them food, you become friends. Members of [the] public often remark that bats are gentle and compliant despite never having interacted directly with a human.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rescuers saw that the bat\u2019s wing was injured, and she would need to recover with an experienced wildlife carer. They took her to a safe facility, where a rehabilitator named Emma could help her heal.<\/p>\n

\"batMeaghan Scott and Fae Pawley<\/p>\n

Today, the flying fox is still with Emma, slowly recuperating and enjoying the company of other rescue bats.<\/p>\n

Pawley hopes this story encourages community members to treat bats with the love and respect they deserve.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy giving members of [the] public a really positive experience with rescue and showing them that flying foxes aren\u2019t the vicious creatures the media portrays them [to be], we hope to garner a positive perception of these important, gentle pollinators,\u201d Pawley said. \u201cMany folks remark that they\u2019re utterly adorable when they see them up close!\u201d<\/p>\n

To help other bats like this one, you can make a donation to The Wildlife Rescuers<\/a>\u00a0and make a donation to Fly By Night Bat Clinic<\/a>.\u00a0\"Pup<\/a>Pup Chained To Tree Was Days From Giving Birth \u2014 Then A Hero Arrived\u201c[She\u2019s] a wonderful girl with a tender heart.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, a woman named Sonia noticed a surprising black figure tangled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[342,123578,64,63,341,75,340,128,156,339,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-330537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-animal-encounters","9":"tag-animal-rescue","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-daily-dodo","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-maeve-dunigan","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-standard","17":"tag-the-dodo","18":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}