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The bats are okay. We're at the end of breeding season. But with each season, we have thirty sexually frustrated bats. The majority of the injures are because of this. Kumba - the one that was found in a bloody heap of trouble, is doing a lot better. He had a partial amputation and was in medical holding with a collar (more like a plastic con type of thing...) While in holding, he somehow became tangled up in something and ended up falling - so we think, because of the amount of blood on the ground. During all of this, he re-injured the amputation site. He is not out of the collar and is stitched back up, but is still in medical holding.

Kalong, the second bat, had a bite wound on the top of his head. The bite happened a few days a go. It was swollen and sort of gross looking, He was on medication and the swelling went down. Yesterday though, the swelling had returned. He was taken in to have the wound expressed, but there was no fluid. He's back with the rest of the group and is on medication.

To add to all of this, two more bats were seen by the vets and placed on medication today. Medicating the bats alone takes at least an hour out of the morning.


The ants are fine. It was Jasmine's colony that escaped. There are four colonies all together, three off exhibit and one on exhibit. Each queen is named after a disney princess - Jasmine, Bell, Ariel and Aurora. They're not the normal get into your house and take over your bedroom ants - these are leaf cutter ants from Trinidad.We have to have special permits to have them. Sort of a pain in the ass.