By Jaigar O'Neill | Community Engagement Coordinator
Dobby the tiny black flying fox was brought into the world sooner than expected after her mother was attacked by a dog.
Dobby’s mother Georgia was found at the base of a tree with severe trauma to her wing membrane. The team at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital also discovered that she was carrying a tiny flying fox in her swollen abdomen, almost at full term. With the injuries that Georgia had sustained, there was sadly nothing more the hospital team could do to help her, but there was still hope for her unborn pup.
Dr. Rebecca and her team rushed Georgia into surgery and successfully delivered Dobby the tiny pup via caesarean, and watched her take her very first breaths on her own. Wrapped tight and snug in a bat wrap, with a special bat pacifier in her mouth, Dobby has been placed in care with an experienced bat carer, until she is old enough to be released into the wild.
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