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Published February 08 2009

Photo Gallery: The Rehabilitation of a Brown Bat

Gerry Krippner volunteers her time as a wildlife rehabilitator and her most recent project is nursing a brown bat back to health after it came out of hibernation too early.


Gerry Krippner is nursing a brown bat back to good health through the winter as part of her volunteer work as a wildlife rehabilitator. Here, the bat sits inside the top of a cardboard box where it will eat mealworms. Below the box is a scale where the bat weighed in at 19 grams before mealtime. (Derek Montgomery / News Tribune)

  • Gerry Krippner is nursing a brown bat back to good health through the winter as part of her volunteer work as a wildlife rehabilitator. Here, the bat sits inside the top of a cardboard box where it will eat mealworms. Below the box is a scale where the bat weighed in at 19 grams before mealtime. (Derek Montgomery / News Tribune)
  • Gerry Krippner moves a brown bat into the top of a cardboard box before feeding it while nursing the bat back to health as part of her job as a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator at her home Wednesday evening near Cromwell. (Derek Montgomery / News Tribune)
  • A brown bat being nursed back to health by Gerry Krippner eats a mealworm Wednesday evening at Krippner's home near Cromwell. Krippner works as a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator. (Derek Montgomery / News Tribune)
  • Gerry Krippner weights a brown bat while she nurses it back to health Wednesday evening in her home near Cromwell. Krippner is a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator. The brown bat weighed in at 19 grams. (Derek Montgomery / News Tribune)
  • Gerry Krippner feeds these mealworms to a brown bat she is nursing back to health as part of her job as a wildlife rehabilitator. She is nursing the bat back to health at her home near Cromwell. (Derek Montgomery / News Tribune)
  • A brown bat looks for a mealworm inside the home of wildlife rehabilitator Gerry Krippner Wednesday evening near Cromwell. The bat came out of hibernation early and was rescued by individuals who turned the bat over to Krippner so she could take care of it the rest of winter. (Derek Montgomery / News Tribune)