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Meet the unbearably cute patients at this one-of-a-kind hospital for bats

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Mia Mathur, a volunteer at Tolga Bat Hospital in Far North Queensland, Australia, bottle feeds an orphan spectacled flying fox. | Harriet Spark for Vox FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND, Australia — Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening animals. Venomous spiders. Deadly snakes. Jellyfish with fatal stings. But it is also home to one of the world’s cutest: the flying fox, also known as the giant fruit bat. I mean, look at this animal. This is a baby bat taking a bubble bath. If it doesn’t melt your heart, nothing will. In northea...