Rescuing Conniption; a juvenile flying-fox entangled in a fish hook

[00:00:00]Well, the claws, this is for to stop the claws.

[00:00:03]>> Yep.

[00:00:04]>> And the rest of it.

[00:00:05]>> Poor bloody Poor bloody thing's been attacked by Indian miners for Christ knows how long.

[00:00:09]>> Indian or noisy?

[00:00:11]>> Whatever the birds are around.

[00:00:12]>> The The ones that are gray with yellow along the side of their beak or the brown ones?

[00:00:16]>> Yeah, no, they're gray with the yellow beak.

[00:00:19]>> Ah, they're noisy miners. They're native.

[00:00:22]Indians aren't.

[00:00:23]>> They won't stop attacking her.

[00:00:25]>> Yeah, I know cuz she's in their territory. Okay, so we've got a little little one up there. And she's probably got a fish hook in her, we think, or a lure.

[00:00:40]Hello, pretty girl.

[00:00:42]Or have you got a dick hiding underneath all that?

[00:00:49]You see, the good bit thing is I'll get her and the noisy miners are having a go at her. Oh, good.

[00:00:58]The good thing is she's moving her wings, but Okay, but also that she's going out to the edge. I like it when they go out to the edge cuz they can't go anywhere.

[00:01:13]Oops. Okay.

[00:01:16]Let her Let her crawl for a bit.

[00:01:18]Where is she? Do not climb up that.

[00:01:21]Okay, you have to.

[00:01:28]Hey.

[00:01:30]Hey.

[00:01:34]I know.

[00:01:35]It's outrageous, isn't [laughter] it?

[00:01:38]Absolutely outrageous.

[00:01:42]Shouldn't be allowed. Nobody should be able to do that to you.

[00:01:46]Now, let me have a look at you, sweetheart.

[00:01:51]And let's make friends.

[00:01:54]So, So can see that her claws she's got very sharp bits on all her claws. Yeah, and she's got a Hello.

[00:02:03]I know, but look at this, darling. Look at that.

[00:02:06]THANK YOU, PETS.

[00:02:15]STOP SLASHING. OKAY. LOOK WHAT I've got for you.

[00:02:19]Let's make friends now.

[00:02:29]Yeah?

[00:02:32]Hey, come You can come closer and have a look at her teeth, too.

[00:02:36]Because I've got her. She can't go anywhere. Look at this.

[00:02:40]It's glucose.

[00:02:45]Glucose is really good for shock. It gives their cells the energy they need to keep everything ticking over until they can decide what to do till they're in a spot where they can manage.

[00:02:56]There we are. How's that, sweetheart?

[00:02:58]Now, am I so bad still?

[00:03:09]May I look?

[00:03:10]Now, may I just put my hand over your face like that so I can have a look at this.

[00:03:17]Bloody fisherman.

[00:03:19]I have a collection of these. They've got triple barbs. See?

[00:03:23]Three three barbs.

[00:03:27]And they're stopping her from flying.

[00:03:30]Okay. I might leave it like that and and cut her out over near the car.

[00:03:36]That sounds like a better idea.

[00:03:40]Okay, let's take the pole. Well, that was really simple.

[00:03:50]And then I've got some sort of clippers in the car I can probably snip the ends of it otherwise I'll get a sedative and make it easier.

[00:03:59]Back up. Back. Now, the fishing hooks they cause membrane damage by not just the puncture but by the um the bits that are tangled around the hook, the membrane is losing its blood supply cuz it's all twisted up.

[00:04:16]So, she'll get a quite significant holes from it when it all dies off and drops out.

[00:04:22]And then it'll all hold up and it'll all pull itself together and the holes will go away. But, that'll take about a month.

[00:04:32]You're not in If you can keep out of my sun, that would be good. Out of my sun, yeah. Just so that I don't get the contrast.

[00:04:41]I know, sweetheart. Let's check out your bits and see what what you are so that we can give you your correct title.

[00:04:53]You're a girl.

[00:04:55]Yes, you're a girl.

[00:05:19]Let's just It might be easier if I do it when I get home, but I'll just have a look for a bit.

[00:05:27]I know.

[00:05:28]Here.

[00:05:28]>> [laughter] >> Okay. I don't need your help, sweetheart, in any way whatsoever. It's not that wing.

[00:05:37]It's the other wing.

[00:05:40]You have a look.

[00:05:42]There it is. It's this wing.

[00:05:45]Which wing is it?

[00:05:55]That's not that wing.

[00:05:57]Where's your other wing?

[00:06:04]Okay.

[00:06:05]How many pieces of cloth do I need to wrap you up in? Hm?

[00:06:12]There we are.

[00:06:23]So, all I have to do is cut the points off every piece.

[00:06:32]One.

[00:06:56]Where's your little face?

[00:06:57]Yes, I know.

[00:06:59]You told me.

[00:07:01]Don't have a conniption.

[00:07:10]Where's the face cone now?

[00:07:20]Just need to get the tips off.

[00:07:30]Where's the point of that one? Hm?

[00:07:37]Where's the tippy bit?

[00:07:42]There it is.

[00:07:49]You have a look, sweetheart. Oh good, your face is down there again.

[00:08:02]There it is.

[00:08:15]We've got the point off that one, but I need to Where's the point gone? That's what I need to see.

[00:08:25]There it is. It's in here.

[00:08:28]Okay, let's push it through this side.

[00:08:45]Come on, darling.

[00:08:55]There it is.

[00:09:02]Yeah.

[00:09:04]Okay, one.

[00:09:08]Two.

[00:09:13]Three.

[00:09:19]See how it's all tangled up everywhere.

[00:09:25]Through there.

[00:09:31]There's one. Okay, just this one now.

[00:09:35]That one.

[00:09:45]Where is the tip of that one gone?

[00:09:53]There it is.

[00:09:55]There we are, sweetheart.

[00:09:57]There we are.

[00:10:00]I've got it off for you.

[00:10:05]I have a collection of these.

[00:10:08]Yeah.

[00:10:12]Okay?

[00:10:14]And then we just take you home and we look after you. Yeah? We do.

[00:10:19]Take you home and we look after you.

[00:10:22]Okay.

[00:10:23]Yeah.

[00:10:29]Bastards.

[00:10:33]Finally found the tip of the third one.

[00:10:40]But look.

[00:10:47]>> How much of a triple is it?

[00:10:48]>> Yeah. It's always a triple. Yeah.

[00:10:51]>> I always thought it was a lure. I didn't I?

[00:10:52]I asked Mom and she said it might have been a tag, but I said tags not >> No.

[00:10:56]>> Something like that wouldn't be that big, especially in >> No, and it wouldn't be constricting the wing either. So, yes, I have a collection of these. Every now and again I publish photos of of all the ones that have um bats that have been caught up in fishing line.

[00:11:22]One got caught hooked up by his balls.

[00:11:26]Yeah, I know. Every male I know, whenever I say that and I don't cross my legs when I say that, Every male I know crosses their legs whenever I say that.

[00:11:36]>> I see that he's a real [ __ ] I'm not surprised.

[00:11:39]>> And he wasn't um uh It was during COVID and no vet would let them in the door.

[00:11:49]>> Yeah.

[00:11:50]>> So I had to cut it out myself.

[00:11:54]So I just said it's you and me, mate.

[00:11:57]And he actually let me do it.