How To Make Mango Kebabs For Baby Flying Foxes In Bat Aviary - Hot Tip Behind The Scenes With Bats

Keeping flying foxes in care results in a constant need to provide food for them as well as to try to stimulate them to forage. Any form of enrichment also helps keep them occupied to combat batty boredom.

Well, fruit kebabs are one thing that ticks all those boxes. And being able to use the mango seeds or stones after cutting off the fruit is an added bonus.

This idea of using barbeque or kebab skewers is so simple and easy to do. You just need to be able to safely handle a drill like Terrie can...yikes!

PS. For the inside joke re wine corks at the end of the video - check out this Facebook link to the very funny "Cork Soakers" sketch on Saturday Nite Live from 2004 with Janet Jackson:
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FLYING FOX FOOD:

Most people think bats or flying foxes only eat our backyard fruit or fruit in our commercial orchards. But they don't.

In fact, their natural food is pollen and nectar from over 100 species of native trees and vines.

They can eat the flowers and sometimes leaves of eucalypt, lily pilly, paperbark, and turpentine trees.

When native foods are scarce, particularly during drought, the bats may supplement this diet by eating fruit from introduced plants found in gardens, orchards, parks, and streetscaping.

However, in a rescue and rehabilitation setting, tropical fruit is one food that is easily sourced by carers.

FUNDRAISING DONATIONS:

Should you like to help with their care, then make a difference and consider donating to your local wildlife group. Even just $1 can make a big difference!

And if you are a resident of Southeast Queensland, then you could use the link: https://batrescue.org.au/donate/
All donations over $2 are fully tax-deductible.

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00:00 Introduction - Terrie with her drill
00:05 Using the drill on a mango stone
00:14 Skewering the drilled mango seed
00:21 Finished fruit kebabs
00:39 The need for wine corks

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