Rescuing a baby flying-fox on his mum: this is Fitzie

Fitzie is a baby Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who was found on his dead mother on the ground. The lovely member of public put a bin over the mother to protect the baby from the rain, and called for rescue. With bats needing rescue, we're never sure what happened prior to the rescue being called in. Sometimes we can tell the bat has been electrocuted (by their injuries). Sometimes we assume the bat has hit their head, because when you fly headfirst in the dark and navigate by sight, if you crash into anything, somewhere in the equation you are bound to have hit your head, either in the initial event or when you crash-land afterwards. I couldn't tell what happened to Fitzie's mum, but it didn't appear to be electrocution, which leaves a collision (probably with a car) as a the other option. This is both good and bad - it means baby is more likely to be viable (ie, no electrocution injuries and no burns), but also may have trauma from the collision. I really don't know how Fitzie is going to do. Initially he seems quite OK, but that's no real survival guide for the longterm. Update: Fitzie survived and went along to a carer a few days later, and was released through a creche system around 5 months later when he was able to fend for himself in the wild. When the hand raised babies are 3 months old, they go into a creche, where they join other orphans and form a group. At this stage they'd be separating from this batty mums and be becoming more independent in the colony. In creche, at this age, they learn batty etiquette and how to live in a batty society. They shrug off their human mums and want to be with the other batties. When they are emotionally and physically ready, and uninjured, and around 4-5 months old, they’re put into a release cage under a colony and they can integrate into the colony and fly out with the wild bats. If they can’t find enough food, they can always come back to the cage for a feed. Support feeding is put up on the outside of the cage for as long as they are coming back and eating it. When the colony flies out for winter, they have fully integrated and fly out with them.