Next to Rockhampton Airport is a large botanical garden filled with thousands of flying foxes, and when the sun sets these creatures come alive and cause headaches for incoming flights.

Little red flying foxes are tree-dwelling bats. In daytime they can be seen roosting in giant camps that may include as many as a million individuals. The bats are indeed efficient fliers ...

In the city of Rockhampton in Queensland, a flying fox population has been bothering humans for a long time. But now the up ...

Gray-headed flying foxes are actually the largest native bat species in Australia, with wingspans up to three feet. They’re found nowhere else in the world. But as urbanization destroys their ...

The NFWC received the colony of nearly 30 bats from the Jacksonville Zoo recently and the center is excited to allow visitors ...

Queensland Health alerted the public about the risk of Australian bat lyssavirus, after a bat found near a school just north ...

The virus is present in the saliva of some Australian bats, including the large flying foxes (fruit-eating bats) and some smaller bats that eat insects. But the proportion of bats infected by the ...

The commonly named "flying!' squirrels and "flying" lemurs actually glide or parachute by means ... Actually, a higher incidence of the disease is found in skunks and foxes than in bats. In the United ...

both of whom have spent decades studying flying foxes in Australia, the Times reports. Over the years, Eby has watched both the landscape and the bats change. Large swaths of the native eucalyptus ...