Hally C.

My name is Hally and I love bats. I love other things too, but mostly bats. Several years ago, I was looking for a place to volunteer with bats. It turned out that there wasn’t a bat rescue in Arizona and only a very small handful of rehabbers. Arizona has 28 species of bats that are spread throughout the state and there are so many ill, injured, and orphaned bats that need help!
Arizona needed a bat rescue, so I needed to start one. My partner Benjamin and I worked to learn everything we could about bats and got training and hands-on experience from many different sources. I got licensed to rehabilitate bats in 2021 and Arizona Bat Rescue was born.
Arizona Bat Rescue's mission is to give bats the support they need to rest and heal and get back into the wild. We also strive to teach everyone we can about how amazing (and adorable) bats are and all the ways people benefit from living with them.

How will the incubator help? Baby season is coming and orphaned and abandoned baby bats (called pups) need incubators to survive. Pups are born furless or with very little fur and can’t regulate their own temperature. It’s vital to their survival that they have an environment that mimics the temperature and humidity that they’d have in the wild. Incubators help support adult bats in many different situations too and we will use it all year, not just during pup season.

I’m asking for a large incubator because bats need to be in special mesh enclosures so that they can crawl around and hang upside-down and do their batty things. They can’t walk or climb on the slick inside walls of an incubator. The smallest enclosure will fit in the TLC-40 Zoologica Series II. This incubator also has the features needed to keep the bats at just the right temperature and humidity.

Thank you so much for your support, every little bit helps! /|\(^._.^)/|\