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To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@ As flying-fox carers we do our best to replicate the very close and precious mother/baby bond when an orphan comes into care. This includes providing a dummy/pacifier which is one of the necessities of life when you are a baby bat. Mother raised babies cling to one of two under wing nipples, each located deep in a wing pit. Baby flying-foxes hang on tightly to their mum for the first four to five weeks of life and they fly out with mum on her nightly foraging expeditions. Once baby gets a little to large to fly with, it is left in a creche tree with other youngsters of a similar age and mum returns during the night to feed and warm her baby. Most orphaned bats love their dummy and we also place our orphans on a 'mumma roll' which replicates mum's body before wrapping them in a soft cloth which is similar to mum's wings. All in all, it's a recipe for success and thousands of baby flying-foxes are raised this way in Australia each year.
