{"id":251127,"date":"2025-11-08T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251127\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:24:08","slug":"former-hampshire-ae-doctor-transforms-home-into-bat-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251127\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Hampshire A&#038;E doctor transforms home into bat hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former A&amp;E doctor who has transformed her home into a bat hospital has said she wants to help change public perception of the mammals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carolyn Hargreaves, who lives near Hambledon, Hampshire, now works to rehabilitate bats that can be returned to the wild and care for those that cannot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK is home to 18 bat species, 17 of which can be found in the south of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Describing the winged animals as &#8220;charismatic&#8221;, Ms Hargreaves said she wished others could see bats the way she does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former A&amp;E doctor who has transformed her home into a bat hospital has said she wants to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-251127","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\/251127","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=251127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}