8 baby flying-foxes: I have become octomum

I thought I’d introduce you to my current octopus of babies: Inky Pinky, Parlez Vous, Eiffel, Louli, Saskia, Bamboo, Grasshopper and Juniper. Somehow I’ve acquired 4 extra babies this week. This video shows just a few minutes of my daily life as octomum. This crowd are a bit of a handful. All the babies are between 5 and 6 weeks old. When the hand raised babies are 3 months old, they go into a creche, where they join other orphans and form a group. They learn batty etiquette and how to live in a batty shrug off their human mums and want to be with the other batties. When they are emotionally and physically ready, and uninjured, and around 4-5 months old, they’re put into a release cage under a colony and they can integrate into the colony and fly out with the wild bats. If they can’t find enough food, they can always come back to the cage for a feed. Support feeding is put up on the outside of the cage for as long as they are coming back and eating it. When