Mya is an adult female Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who was found in the rose bushes in a suburban backyard. She climbed into the lemon tree eventually and hung out there till I arrived to rescue her.
I suspect she has been in netting from her wrist injury - I think someone has cut her out of netting and let her go a few days before she was rescued. These injuries are serious and without early treatment the bats die.
Sometimes even with treatment they don't survive. They get a kind of myopathy and go into renal failure. The breakdown product of muscle damage is myoglobin, which is toxic to the kidneys. Without prompt extra fluids renal failure is the end result.
Mya didn't make it. She died on the first night. This was probably a direct result of her injury and renal failure secondary to her struggling in netting in the sun before she was cut out. The injury itself looked survivable had she been rescued and brought into care quickly.
RIP Mya.
