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Care for Bats

Das Foto zeigt eine Breitflügelfledermaus, Eptesicus serotinus // the photo shows a Eptesicus serotinus Breitflügelfledermaus Eptesicus serotinus  (Dr. Renate Keil / www.bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)

IMPORTANT: The medical care of bats requires a lot of experience. Often severely injured animals can recover.  If you have no experience with bats, please bring the bat immedately to the next bat-expert. Never try to take care of a bat yourself. To care for bats needs much experience and special facilities you don't have. 

Please note that the natural defense behavior of bats, especially when the animals are in pain, can easily be confused with rabies symptoms.

For all medical questions about the bats, please contact Dr. Keil  - please do not hesitate to contact her:
Emergency Phone: 01573-0910222 

 (Consulting is free) 

Or contact directly Bat World Sanctuary 

The following notes are for bats experts only: 

Feeding bats

Futtertaining für eine Fledermaus // Feeding training for a Bat  (Doris Drews / www.bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)

We train the bats who are badly injured and have to stay a bit longer in our station, to feed themselves. So you take one bat and a worm and offer the worm to the bat.  

Futtertaining für eine Fledermaus // Feeding training for a Bat  (Doris Drews / www.bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)

When the bat takes the worm, you get the next worm and offer it to the bat. With every worm you get the bat closer to the little bowl where the worms are in. Some bats are very good and start after a few seconds eating from the bowl, others need a couple of days or weeks to learn this.

It's very important to talk to the bats calmly, when they get trained, so they won't get afraid of the bowl and the worms in it. Bats from the same group you can train together so they can see how the clever ones eat from the bowl and they will learn it from their friends. Others of the group need to be trained and trained again.

Drinking Training

eine Fledermaus bekommt Wasser // a bat gets water  (Doris Drew / www.bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)

The same with the food goes for the water. You start getting them water with a pipette and then get closer and closer to the waterbowl. 

Bat is drinking water

In our bat station a nyctalus noctula is drinking water. You see him taking the water from the edge of the bowl so it is important to use shallow bowl and fill them with water up to the top. 

Vitamins for Bats

Vitamine für Fledermäuse // Vitamins for bats  (Pixabay / www.pixabay.com)

Every bat in the station gets vitamins.  The dosing must be exact! 

The care of bats must be well organized

Versorgung von Fledermäusen // Taking care of bats  (Gudrun Becker / www.bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)

The care of bats requires great thoroughness. Every day the bats get their supplies. Here you can see, for example, special foods, vitamins, medicine, minerals, cold-pressed rapeseed oil, cotton swabs and a scale. Each bat has an index card so that every animal gets the treatment our vet has prescribed. 

Book: The Rehabilitation and Captive Care of Insectivorous Bats by Amanda Lollar

Das Foto zeigt das Buch The Rehabilitation and Captive Care of Insectivorous Bats by Amanda Lollar The Rehabilitation and Captive Care of Insectivorous Bats by Amanda Lollar  (Foto vom Buch: Gudrun Becker / https://batworld.org/)

We recommend the book "The Rehabilitation and Captive Care of Insectivorous Bats" by Amanda Lollar. Here you can order the book.  

Found a bat?

Juvenile Wasserfledermaus // juvenil Myotis daubentonii  (Dr. Renate Keil / www.bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)

Contact

Die Zeichnung zeigt BUNDchen Fledermaus am Telefon // The drawing shows BUNDchen bat at the phone BUNDchen Fledermaus am Telefon // BUNDchen Fledermaus at the phone  (Carina Bach / www.bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)

For medical treatment information about bats please contact Bat World Sanctuary.

Found a bat - get help!

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Take Action for bats!

Die Zeichnung zeigt BUNDchen Fledermaus, er sagt zu dir Take Action! Werde aktiv für den Fledermausschutz! //  The drawing shows BUNDchen bat, he says to you Take Action! Get active for bat protection! click here

Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees

Das Foto zeigt einen großen grünen Baum // The photo shows a big green tree click here

Bats on Facebook

Die Zeichnung zeigt BUNDchen Fledermaus mit Handy // the drawing shows BUNDchen bat with cellphone click here

Bats on Instagram

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Bats on Youtube

Die Zeichnung zeigt BUNDchen Fledermaus auf der Bühne // the drawing shows BUNDchen bat on stage click here

Bats on Twitter

Die Zeichnung zeigt BUNDchen Fledermaus, der Zeitung liest // the drawing shows BUNDchen bat who is reading the newspaper click here
Das Foto zeigt eine Kleinabendseglerin mit dem Text Ich bin ein Wesen der Nacht. Hast du je an mich gedacht? Ich bin klein und unscheinbar, und bin doch so wunderbar. Kleinabendsegler Nyctalus leisleri  (Gudrun Becker / www-bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)
Das Foto zeigt einen Großer Abendsegler Nyctalus noctula im Porträt // The photo shows a nyctalus noctula in profile Großer Abendsegler Nyctalus noctula  (Gudrun Becker / www-bund-fledermauszentrum-hannover.de)

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