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After the megafires of 2019-2020, nationally threatened grey-headed flying-foxes are about to find themselves in a mass starvation event. With the arrival of cooler temperatures they have begun their ...
Of those, 54 have been categorised as either critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable, which includes the bogong moth, the grey-headed flying-fox, greenlip abalone, arcadia velvet gecko and ...
A local photographer captures stunning images of the flying foxes that struggle to hang on in the city—and the humans who look after them. Orphaned and rescued gray-headed flying foxes feed on ...
MELBOURNE, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Thousands of baby grey-headed flying foxes have been abandoned by their mothers in the latest example of wildlife devastation caused by Australia's severe drought and ...
Grey-headed flying-foxes are a favourite subject because they play a key role in the health of our forests, flying dozens of kilometres every night to ­forage on nectar and fruit, and in the ...
Six dead grey-headed flying foxes have been found shot and with broken bones in Victoria's Gippsland In a separate incident a mother and daughter witnessed a bat beaten to death at a private ...
Once seen as a menace, the gray-headed flying fox brings new life after recent devastating wildfires By Carlyn Kranking - Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation With a baby in tow, a gray-headed ...
The study team set out to investigate Hendra virus infection dynamics in the grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) at the southern end of its range, in southern Victoria. They reported ...
For over a decade, grey-headed flying foxes have called SA home with new camps forming due to food shortages. Find out why. Since settling in South Australia over a decade ago, Botanic Park has ...