Macquarie University researchers are working with Australia's largest wildlife rescue organisation to improve biosecurity for ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in ...
In Far North Queensland, one special winged mammal helps keep rainforests alive. The spectacled flying fox travels vast distances each night, pollinating flowers and spreading seeds far and wide.
A health warning has been issued for parts of north Queensland after dozens of people have been bitten or scratched by flying foxes. Authorities say encounters with the bats are on the increase and ...
MELBOURNE (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 bushfires, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Just like humans, flying foxes have thumbs. These thumbs act as hooks, which enable the bats to climb up trees to reach better spots. From the ...
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Hendra virus (HeV) continues to cause fatal infection in horses and threaten infection in close-contact humans in eastern Australia. Species of Pteropus bats (flying-foxes) are the natural reservoir ...