Bat eared foxes LOVE raisins :) Spent a year studying them in the desert, and yeah, the way to attract them to start an observation was to offer them raisins :)
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Bat eared foxes LOVE raisins :) Spent a year studying them in the desert, and yeah, the way to attract them to start an observation was to offer them raisins :)
Awesome thank you 😅 Another epic for the collection
Wohoo!!!
Specifically no I did not know that! I do know that foxes occasionally do have strange dietary preferences, I also have a Fox nephew! This is Todd,
Oh my God, Todd's a cutie 😍. So do your family rehab injured wildlife?
Not as much as we used to, growing up we had everything you could think of filtering in and out of the house, a lot stayed but a lot didn't. We still run through what most people would consider good amount of animals, but more on an extreme basis.
Is Todd named so because of the book/movie "The Fox and the Hound?"
Why yes, yes he is :)
That's very cool :) I've done a lot of volunteering at animal shelters before but never with injured wildlife. It's something I'd love to get into :)
It can be really challenging, every animal is so different, takes such different care...
Bunnies for example, we never took bunnies. If someone brought us bunnies we'd take them right into the SPCA. Bunnies die. Especially baby bunnies, a tiny scratch and there most likely on borrowed time. They can be just fine and they're probably still going to die just because. Bunnies are best left to the pros.
Crows are best left to the pros, as we found out the hard way... They have a very interesting system and if you rescue and injured crow and mend him up, the murder that's gathered in the back yard are nooot his friends and you will likely get viciously pecked and scratched trying the get him back in the house to save him again.
Bats. Bats are cool but also best left to pros as they are extremely gross and will masturbate in front of children.
Lol, I didn't know that about bats! I did manage to rear a baby bat most of the way to adulthood once. She was super cute... Have never tried a baby bunny, but yeah they are different creatures in terms of what antibiotics they can handle, what they can eat and just the general f up that is their digestive system 😏
Other than that, mostly spiders and fish that I've reared successfully 😂 At any rate it sounds like you had a very Gerry Durrell childhood 🙂
I certainly have, and I'm so glad for it!