🔊 Sounds of Australia 2024: Last call of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Have you heard of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle? Probably not, and you may never have had the chance to if it was not for this recording. This tiny microbat, weighing only three grams and scientifically named Pipistrellus murrayi, was once found exclusively on Christmas Island. Unfortunately, it was declared extinct in 2017. 🦇 In 2009, a group of eight scientists and volunteers from organisations including Zoos Victor

Say hello to Bo and Peep! Bo is a female common pipistrelle bat and Peep is a male soprano pipistrelle bat (he’s the lighter fur). Both are approximately 3 weeks old and were rescued by members of the public when they had fallen out of their roosts. We always try to reunite pups with their mothers, at dusk the mother sometimes comes out to find her baby and will swoop down, feed them and pick them up and fly back with them attached to the roost. After 5 nights of attempts their mothers sadly did