{"id":202435,"date":"2025-10-15T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202435\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:14","slug":"bat-flushed-down-essex-toilet-released-back-to-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202435\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat flushed down Essex toilet released back to wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity added that the bat had a &#8220;newfound fear of large bodies of water&#8221; and advised people could check toilets for bats before flushing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hospital founder Sue Schwar said it was difficult to work out how the bat ended up in the toilet, but suspected it could have been looking for water to drink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;We find animals in all sorts of weird and wonderful places. It just never ceases to amaze me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve got no concept of ownership of gardens or houses or even toilets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Schwar said pipistrelles are small brown bats which usually have a wingspan of about 20cm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained they are one of the most common species of bat in the country, and like all bats, they have a protected status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charity added that the bat had a &#8220;newfound fear of large bodies of water&#8221; and advised people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-202435","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\/202435","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=202435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}