“This baby dormouse was welcomed with its brother,” explains Noémie Bruyant, wildlife animal caretaker at the Charente Nature center. His eyes were open and there were no injuries. Apart from slight dehydration, as is often the case with animals that arrive here, he had nothing broken, no injuries.”
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These “two beautiful, healthy young people were, however, too small to be independent,” continues Noémie Bruyant. They were therefore kept warm in an incubator and bottle-fed several times a day by the team.”
Gradually, they began to eat what was made available to them and the keepers were able to reduce the number of bottles until they were 100% independent. Once big enough, they were installed in a large cage placed in the woods to be immersed in their future place of life.
“Gradual release”
“When we judged that they were big and tall enough, we opened the cage and they could be released, while continuing to be fed. We are talking about a gradual release. This is what we do for young animals, so that they gradually gain independence.”
