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We can't resist aww-worthy good causes or baby animals, so when found out about Tolga Bat Hopsital--we could hardly handle our excitement. 

Located in the rainforest of Far North Queensland, Australia, Tolga Bat Hospital takes in baby fruit bats, or flying foxes, who have been abandoned by their mothers or have become orphans after their mothers have died.

On average, Tolga Bat Hospital cares for 500 baby bats a year, about 300 of which are orphaned after their mother has died, usually from tick paralysis.

"The bats have no immunity, they get paralyzed within a couple of days, drop out of their trees and die," volunteer Ashleigh Johnson told BuzzFeed. "We search through the colony once a day from September to December, pick-up the orphans and care for them.” 

Baby bats aren't that different from human babies. They have to be cared for carefully, fed frequently and bathed properly. Oh, and they have to be kept warm and swaddled like they would be by their mothers, hence the blanket burritos. Sometimes, they're even hung upside down on clotheslines to get use to their natural position.

According to Johnson, after they're first found, they're fed with milk about every four hours. At three months, they then switch to their natural fruit diet. By five months, they have been learning to fly, living with other bats and are learning to be self-sufficent so they can eventually make it back in to the wild.

Before making it back to the wild, though, they get plenty of cute photo ops! 

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by Kate Radin | 2/1/2016