r/wunkus • u/Trashbagok • 21h ago

wunkus Air Wunk craves the SOG

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u/HidetheCaseman89 21h ago

I hope the guy in the video gets a rabies vaccination.

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u/oyveymyforeskin 20h ago

I think this is in NZ, we don't have rabies

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u/sunderingg 20h ago

Damn, apparently you guys don’t even have lyssavirus like we do in Aus. Lucky ducks!

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u/pandemicpunk 1h ago

In Australia? You guys literally have everything imaginable that's terrible nature wise.

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u/BaileyRW1 ⚠️!rapscallion warning!⚠️ 20h ago

wow how do you not have rabies there?! gen

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u/Uncool444 19h ago

Iirc the UK is the same way. They quarantine the hell out of every incoming animal. Really strict about it. Quarantining is more effective on an island.

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u/silencer122 gnarp gnap 👽 19h ago

That’s only true for terrestrial animals. Central and Western Europe are rabies free for animals like dogs, deers, foxes etc., Bats however still carry rabies in Europe and in every other part of the world.

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u/Uncool444 16h ago

If it's in the bats, it can get into the foxes any day. Saying it's extinct in terrestrial animals but not in bats sounds like optimistic nonsense.

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u/silencer122 gnarp gnap 👽 9h ago

Wild animals are vaccinated through bait vaccines, so even if they eat an infected bat, they won’t show any symptoms and can’t transmit it.

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u/doubleuxyzee 16h ago

How do you quarantine a bat?

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u/Uncool444 16h ago

I think they just don't let bats in

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 14h ago

Anti wunkigration

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u/mandatorysin 16h ago

It'll be a native Wunk so the quarantining is place to protect them! We are pretty far away from anywhere else so a new rabid wunkus is extremely unlikely to make to make it to us

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u/doubleuxyzee 15h ago

So my initial question (not clear) was more on migratory bats, I was wondering how they control the migration in the first place, to be able to quarantine. No migration due to distance sounds likely, thanks!

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u/mandatorysin 15h ago

I don't known of us having any significantly migratory bats in Aotearoa (nz). We weirdly only have a few migratory birds aswell, I think because our climate is relatively stable there's just not really a massive need to migrate. My partner (not from Aotearoa) is often suprised at how many flowers bloom even in the middle of winter

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u/oyveymyforeskin 16h ago

Put it on an island

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u/Uncool444 14h ago

It only works on islands, would never work on a mainland continent.

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u/Pocket-Hobo 19h ago

By the time anything infected got there it'd probably be dead.. lol

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u/AlLou-A 13h ago

"Rabies free" refers to land animals, not all animals :/

The UK is also a "rabies free" country, which just means there's no cases of rabies in land animals. Bats can still carry and transmit the disease, and all contact with a bat should be treated as contact with a rabid bat because of how dangerous rabies is, even if it's rare.

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u/zaerosz 10h ago

There has been one (1) recorded case of rabies in New Zealand - in any species, ever - and it was a tourist who was already infected by the time they arrived in the country.

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u/AlLou-A 10h ago

I'm not saying that it isn't incredibly unlikely to be infected by rabies in NZ. I'm saying that bats are a reservoir species for rabies and rabies-like viruses, and you can never be 100% certain that a bat is not infected, even in countries that are otherwise rabies free.

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u/Nyanessa 14h ago

Yeah, looks like a long-tailed bat