00:01A baby looking for mother's comfort.
00:05One of dozens of orphaned flying foxes saved by wildlife carers.
00:11Hundreds of dead, they're falling around you while you're trying to rescue other ones.
00:17Falling to the ground screaming, dead on the floor like we've just missed them.
00:21Wildlife workers say it's not disease killing them, but starvation.
00:26From what we gather, the adults all took off prior to the cyclone and they have left their babies there.
00:31So most of the babies are orphaned and there's hundreds, hundreds to thousands of babies just alone.
00:36For a territory to have a flying fox crash of this scale, it's fairly unprecedented.
00:43More than 20 volunteers are trying to save as many as possible.
00:48Driving almost every day between Catherine and Darwin to collect living bats and safely dispose of the dead.
00:55Another little one.
00:56On arrival in Darwin, an army of qualified wildlife carers takes over.
01:02Most of the ones that are in at the moment, they're on five feeds a day.
01:05So our morning starts pretty early.
01:08And on top of that, of course, having to get kids ready for school, getting to work.
01:14A lot of us also work full time.
01:16So we're trying to do this in and around our jobs as well.
01:19They requested help from Parks and Wildlife, but were denied.
01:24NT Health are urging Territorians to avoid contact with any bats they may find.
01:30We reached out to Parks and Wildlife for comment, who referred us back to NT Health.
01:35The wider ecological impact of this calamity is still unclear, with a major pollinator's population decimated.
01:46Thank you for the inspiration.
01:47We'll continue to remind you.
01:48I believe?
01:49Yes, I believe.
01:49You do
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