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Captive Care and Medical Reference for the Rehabilitation of Insectivorous Bats

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This comprehensive reference on bat care provides excellent instruction on housing, feeding, medicating, and rehabilitating orphaned and injured bats. It provides simple instructions and explanations as to the best methods for insectivorous bat care....even the delicate species. It uses pictures, recipes, and easy to follow instructions on proper housing, feeding and medicating regimes for bats of different ages and ailments. It also allows one to learn from the years of personal experience these bat rehabilitators have invested in caring for many different species of bats.

Scientists sit in their ivory towers and theorize about bat care. Lollar and French share their work and findings from the trenches, where real bat care takes place. The information contained in this book gives a factual, unique, easy-to-understand, and compassionate look into the complicated world of bat rehabilitation. While keeping public safety at the forefront, the book outlines specific details on the proper care of captive bats, including recommended supplies, life-insuring measurements, and diagrams. This book is an absolute must for bat rehabbers!

This well written, easy to understand book covers everything from safety, laws and regulations,species, all to how-to's for orphan and adult care, and provides the references needed to answer any questions about the care of insectivorous bats. A MUST HAVE current reference, now in its second edition, for anyone seriously dedicated to the care of bats.

Because of this book, I became interested in the welfare of bats. Without it, I would not have known how to start, where to go, nor what to do. It was the springboard that launched me into a career as a bat rehabilitator. As an aside, I appreciate that the authors are confident enough in their abilities and experience to forego the use of language that could be understood only by those in the medical profession.

Not only an outstanding piece of reference material but an absolute must for any individual responsible for the rehab of bats. I have had 2 veterinarians as well as my orthopedic surgeon (a bat enthusiast) review the book and all have given it raves. As another book reviewer has mentioned, it is unofficially called the 'bat bible' within the bat community. Congratulations to Lollar and French for their original work as well as this new, updated version of the bat bible.

This book is the "Bat Bible" for anyone rehabbing insectivorous bats. It is well written, easy to understand and very informative.

I am a Physical therapist turned bat rehabber and the information in this book is everything you need to approprately treat and release bats. The price is perfect compared to other rehab books I have had to purchase. The Chapters get you quickly and easliy to the right page when needed and the charts contained in the back I frequently refer to. There is even a section to help find equipment. They really thought of everything!!!

This book is the BEST information out there for Bat Rehabbers, Veterinarians and scientists. As a bat rehabber i know what works for me and this book has helped me So much to be a HUMANE caregiver. Most other bat rehabbing books are very insensitive to the bat, this book is wonderful. i can't say enough about it.

This book is an invaluable asset to anyone working with bats. The information included is meticulously collected, proven and thorough. It covers everything from the rescue of newborn pups to treating bats with burns, pneumonia, broken bones, etc... The book covers which medications are best to use in which conditions. Even things as simple as feeding and wrist sprains, which in bats are not simple, are covered. I have found several Veterinarians who have found the book to be helpful in the treatment of these animals. If you are working with bats or even interested in their biology and physiology this is a great book written by people who know.

This book is well organized, and gives current information on the care of insectivorous bats. It is easy to understand for all educational backgrounds. Not until this book, was there a well written, carefully researched book on bat rehabilitation. Every facility that houses insectivorous bats should be required to own one. All the proceeds from this book goes directly to bat rescue.