Tag Archives: Seychelles fruit bat

Sep
23
2011

A sad goodbye

It is with great sadness that we have to say goodbye to this beautiful island. Our four and a half years on Cousine Island have been spectacular and it had really become home. Cousine Island is one of those special places that will crawl into your heart and never leave it, whether you visit it [...]

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May
24
2011

Winged visitors

We’ve had 2 winged visitors recently, with the wings being the only real similarity! A Madagascar Cuckoo, not a common visitor in the Seychelles Granitics, have recently visited Cousine Island for a couple of days. This magnifiscent looking bird seemed to be a juvenile and was easily caught and rung. Measurements were taken and it’s body [...]

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Dec
14
2010

A year in the life of little Squeaker

We have had the wonderful pleasure of having been “parents” to little Squeaker for a year now.  He came into our lives on 13 December 2009 when we found him abandoned, hanging onto the roof of the hill apartments in the hot sun. Fearing for the first week that he would be dead every time [...]

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May
23
2010

Goodbye Squeaker

Squeaker, the handreared Seychelles Fruit Bat, has decided to return to the wild again. Yesterday morning the little bat (weighing only 270 g) took off  and flew 100 metres down the valley into a huge Pisonia grandis tree from where he clambered into the canopies of the surrounding fig trees. He has spent 4 days [...]

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