Arizona Bat Rescue 🦇

Throwback to the Allen's big-eared bat that came to us. Arizona is home to many remarkable ears. 🦇

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A good blow dry does wonders.

Indeed.

Small light brown bat with 1 wing open and one covering a mealworm.

Dis is my worm! Butch is 3.5 grams of fierce canyon bat. Don't mess with him! 🦇
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Small, wet bat held in a cloth that was in a flypaper trap. Bat is covered in oil (to remove the glue) and glue residue.

Small brownish bat held in a blue cloth. Same bat as prior but all clean.

Repeat PSA: Don't use glue traps/fly paper! This Mexican free-tailed bat got lucky but many don't get saved. Please let people know that glue traps of any kind are inhumane and dangerous. 🦇

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That is Duchess!

That's wonderful to hear!

4 brownish bats held in white gloved hands.

4 brownish bats held in white gloved hands.

4 brownish bats held in white gloved hands.

4 brownish bats held in white gloved hands.

Arizona is home to 5 species of free-tailed bats (family Molossidae) and we currently have 4 in care. They definitely look related but when they are all together you can really see their differences. They are all very mellow, gentle, and social bats. 🦇
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They are in the same family, yes! See today's post for a comparison.

Close up of the face of a dark brown bat with large ears.

Please welcome our newest bat, a big free-tailed bat (N. macrotis). She came to us from Nebraska Wildlife Rehab. They assume she was blown off course during a storm. Since they aren't found in NE, they brought her to us for release. For now we have 4 of the 5 species of free-tailed bats in AZ. 🦇

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This sweet western red bat female got dislodged from her home after a storm but will be going back out into the wild again shortly. 🦇

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He ate worms faster than we've ever seen before so he was named after the vacuum. 😅

He got them right after!

Hoover the Mexican free-tailed bat has the fastest snout in the west. (Or at least one of them.) 🦇

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We never get over how big she is!

They really are funny little guys.

Bat with reddish fur held in gloved hand.

Fluffy bat with brown and white fur held in yellow gloved hand.

Black bat with fluffy fur in white cloth.

Yellow colored bat with fluffy fur on a leather glove.

BATTLE OF THE FLOOF! Who wore it best?
1. western red bat 2. hoary bat 3. silver-haired bat 4. western yellow bat 🦇

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Brown colored bat with big ears held in a brown gloved hand with a burgundy background.

How perfect is Duchess on a scale of 100% to absolutely perfect? Duchess is a western mastiff bat, the largest bat species in the United States. 🦇

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Small black bat with silver tips to his fur on a white cloth.

Back of a small black bar with silver tips on his fur on a blue cloth.

We can't get over the floof! This beautiful silver-haired boy will be released this weekend. Be well, little one! 🦇

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All hail Zora

They really do. We used to think it was just anthropomorphizing when we first started rehab but it's true.

MY BOWL IS EMPTY! Zora The Queen keeps us in line. 🦇

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She came in pregnant after being injured. She had her pup and raised him despite that and he was released!

She's super mellow. 😊

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I can totally see that.

Yaaaay!!!!

Small grey-ish bat on a piece of wood.

Thank you @zootograph (Instagram) for this beautiful photo of Lily. 🦇

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It's true, many people just have no experience with bats or learning about them and are open to it.