The Centre of Cheiroptera Rehabilitation of the Feldman Ecopark saved from death about 400 bats from Zaporizhia. The tower-block’s residents recently found them during balcony repairs. They addressed local volunteers on animal protection, and those contacted the only one Centre of Rehabilitation of these rare animals in Ukraine which exists for over 4 years on the basis of Feldman Ecopark.
The rescued bats were placed in boxes and brought from Zaporizhia to Kharkiv. Here they were immediately taken under guardianship of a cheiropterologists (the experts studying chiropter animals) – common noctule bats were examined, got wined and dined, were ringed and placed on overexposure. Now the specialists will control their state and weight – they’ll feed up and rehabilitate the exhausted and weak individuals, healthy and well-fad ones will be placed in the refrigerator. There they will hang in special sacks and wait for spring.
“These winged mammals often find shelters in people’s dwellings – in wall cracks, between windows. You can easily find them during repairing and even during clear-out. It’s hard even to imagine how many different living beings exist nearby! Sometimes they find a way to get into apartment through a small crack in the wall. There was an incident when we got a call from young girl. She told that the bat “has materialized” on a toothbrush in a bathroom – it sneaked into through the idle socket, – Candidate of Biology, the head of the Centre for rehabilitation of the Chiroptera Anton Vlashchenko tells. – In the winter cheiropterous animals fall into anabiosis and if to disturb them, they can die. In order to prevent this from happening, in case of bat detection there is a certain need to call the Centre for rehabilitation of the Chiroptera (ph. +38 (057) 78 170 78)/ Our specialists will arrive and take the foundlings”.
Now in the Feldman Ecopark Centre for rehabilitation of the Chiroptera winters about one thousand saved bats. When it gets warmer, all of them will be released back to the wildlife – will spread over the Regional Landscape Park. It should be reminded that annually the spring Chiroptera release is held. Last year more than 600 were released back to the wildlife. During its existence, the Centre for rehabilitation of the Chiroptera has saved life to 5 thousand Red Book animals.
