A providence petrel goes onto the X-ray machine. Some traumatized animals, including a tiny Gould’s long-eared microbat, are swaddled in towels. An echidna, or spiny anteater, has a tube attached to its long beaky nose. All these animals injured during the recent historic floods in New South Wales, Australia, and their care was in the hands of an expert veterinarian team at the Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital.Days of relentless and heavy rains caused the worst flooding in decades on parts of Australia’s eastern coast. It has not only upended the…
