{"id":582389,"date":"2025-11-20T11:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:13:24","slug":"woman-hears-crying-in-flower-patch-and-finds-wild-baby-who-fell-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582389\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Hears ‘Crying’ In Flower Patch And Finds Wild Baby Who Fell From The Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Bat Rescue South Australia<\/a> (Bat Rescue SA), animal experts regularly check on local bat colonies for signs of animals in distress. Recently, a team member named Cindy was conducting one of these routine checks when she heard a \u201ccrying<\/a>\u201d sound echoing from within a patch of flowers.<\/p>\n

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Cindy carefully combed through the thicket of nasturtiums and found the source of the noise. A baby bat named Sassy was alone on the ground, and she needed help.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle Sassy was cold and frightened and clinging to nasturtium stems,\u201d Bat Rescue SA coordinator Sue Westover told The Dodo.<\/p>\n

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Aside from her cold skin and scared eyes, Sassy appeared to be in good health. Cindy looked around and spotted a pair of adult bats circling overhead. The rescuer hoped that these were Sassy\u2019s parents searching for their baby. She placed Sassy in a tree nearby and kept an eye on her for over an hour, waiting for the bat\u2019s family to return. Sadly, no one came.<\/p>\n

\u201cSassy was getting colder, more distressed and weaker, barely able to hold on,\u201d Westover said. \u201cThe rescuer felt the only option to save Sassy was to take her into care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Safe with her carer, Ann, Sassy guzzled bat formula and relaxed in her heated crib. She soon made friends with Sam, another orphaned bat around the same age. Today, Sassy continues to hit every benchmark as she prepares to return home to the wild.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe is feeding extremely well, is learning how to do things on her own, and has bonded to her adopted brother,\u201d Westover said. \u201cIn a few more weeks, she will start to enjoy some fruit as well as her formula.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, Sassy will be completely weaned off her bat formula and begin dissociating from humans completely. Then she\u2019ll be ready to fly back to the trees.<\/p>\n

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Though rescuers were initially frustrated that they couldn\u2019t reunite Sassy with her bat mother, they\u2019re glad to have served as her adopted mother during this transformational time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSassy being so healthy, active and inquisitive is a joy to watch for her human mum,\u201d Westover said. \u201cWatching her fly free in a few months will be the ultimate (bittersweet) joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

To help other animals like Sassy, you can make a donation to Bat Rescue SA<\/a>.\u00a0\"Woman<\/a>Woman Slams Bathroom Door When She Sees Deadly Animal Blocking Her ExitShe had to think quickly.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Bat Rescue South Australia (Bat Rescue SA), animal experts regularly check on local bat colonies for signs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[1718,67116,1716,728,26087,70,1715,1713,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-582389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal-encounters","9":"tag-bats","10":"tag-daily-dodo","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-maeve-dunigan","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-standard","15":"tag-the-dodo","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115581736174091067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}