ONLY a few days old Olivia, the flying fox, weighs 54 grams and is one of the youngest survivors of NSW's scalding and fiery summer.
At the South Coast Wildlife Rescue, her carer Michelle Carlile is giving her the "premature baby treatment".
Ms Carlile uses a syringe to give Olivia water to cool her down on this 48 degree day.
The mother-of-five is an old hand at baby rearing, but her children are now all grown up in their 20s.
"Olivia is very much the same as a human infant," she told AAP "But there's no nappies or screaming."
Olivia fell off her mother's back and was found on the ground edge of a known bat colony near Nowra.
"She shouldn't have been born yet," Ms Carlile said, adding that she still had her cord attached to her belly button.
"Her mother's given birth from the heat stress." Olivia's eyes haven't opened yet.
"She's like a puppy," Ms Carlile said, adding that her eyes won't open for a week or ten days.
Olivia is fed every three hours on a milk supplement and will stay with her carer for 13 weeks before she's strong enough to go in a cage with other juvenile bats.
She's curled up in a handkerchief and fanning herself with her wings.
The rescue centre will release her in a year.
The grey-headed flying fox is a threatened species and the sole pollinator of the eucalypt forest.
Their preferred food is blossom from eucplytus trees but they also eat fruit.
The wildlife rescue bat clinic is looking after a hundred flying foxes who eat 10kg of fruit a day.
An estimated 3000 bats from Olivia's flying fox colony have died from heatstroke in the past week.
Wildlife rescuers warn people who find flying foxes in distress, not to handle them because of the disease risk. It's better to phone qualified rescuers who have been vaccinated.
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