{"id":201447,"date":"2025-10-15T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201447\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:05:08","slug":"jersey-zoo-makes-difficult-decision-to-rehome-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201447\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Zoo makes &#8216;difficult decision&#8217; to rehome bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Sadly we have now made the incredibly difficult decision to find our colony of bats new homes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have weighed up the benefits of repairing the tunnel against creating a new exhibit which is the better option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the focus was to always ensure the best welfare for its animals and finding new homes for the once critically endangered species of bats would take many months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In April keepers had to move 70 bats in one day into smaller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyq73jy71wo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">groups across the site following an outbreak of Pasteurella in the colony<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thanks to the swift action and dedication of our team we were able to minimise the loss we faced when the colony sadly got infected but this could have been a different story,&#8221; Mr Matthews said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since April the bats have been living in temporary accommodation&#8230; the Pasteurella is contained and we&#8217;ve now welcomed several new bat pups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dave Houston, associate veterinary officer at the zoo, said following the outbreak they had developed a world-first vaccine for the use of fruit bats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: &#8220;Sadly we have now made the incredibly difficult decision to find our colony of bats new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-201447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}