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Did a morning at Caversham #wildlife park in #Perth and met heaps of Australian animals – #kangaroos, #wombats, #koalas, #kookaburras, #galahs, #flyingfoxes, #wallabies, #cockatoos, #pelicans, and more.

#westernaustralia

For #BatAppreciationDay, this is a WWII-era photo of American Marines holding a very large bat, aka "a flying fox." [Photo credit: Barbara Giguere on Facebook.]

#Bats #FlyingFoxes #FlyingFox #Batstodon #PixelBats #WWIIphotos #WorldWarII #HistoricalPhotos #FamilyPhotos

Black-and-white photo of two men in World War II-era casual military clothing, standing side by side. Together, they are holding an extremely large bat in front of them, with its wings spread wide. The bat's body is resting slightly lower than the wingtips, which extend out past the sides of both men. Its wingspan is probably several feet across. The bat's body/torso is approximately the size of a large cat. [Photo source: Barbara Giguere on Facebook.]

Oldie, baby Flying fox bat. 🩷

#drawing #flyingfoxes #bat #teddybearbat #clipstudiopaint

Drawing (cropped) pf a baby Flying Fox fruit bat in a flowering mimosa tree, hugging his teddy bat stuffie.

Flying foxes flying out of their roost, Mafia island, Tanzania.
100 images in 10 seconds stacked

#bats #bat #flyingfox #flyingfoxes #wildlife #naturephotography #olympus #omsystem #olympusphotography

Endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes - misinformation is rife

"Tim Pearson, a wildlife ecologist who specialises in flying fox behaviour and communication, says the “double whammy” of destroying native forests while providing alternative food sources in farms and residential areas creates the potential for human-bat conflict and harassment, identified as a threat in recovery plans for endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes."

“The Australian attitude towards wildlife has always been positive, providing it doesn’t inconvenience you...Unfortunately for flying foxes, in their case it often does. Things have been getting better, Pearson says, but flare-ups still occur when practical concerns – about noise, the animals’ impact on fruit growers, power outages or potential disease threats – are reported in breathless terms by the media. At worst they’re vilified and face a constant battle of disinformation, hate speech and are even persecuted.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/03/australia-flying-foxes-endangered-species-list
#bats #FlyingFoxes #persecution #wildlife #dispersal #harassment #coexistence #NSWLogging #HateSpeech #MSM #ShiftingAttitudes #biodiversity #destruction

The golden-crowned #FlyingFoxes are crucial for #Boracay’s ecosystem. They help regenerate #forests by dispersing seeds and control #pests by eating thousands of #mosquitoes daily, reducing the risk of mosquito-borne diseases like #dengue. #Philippines

Save Boracay’s #FruitBats, environmentalists appeal to DENR, local officials
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/visayas/save-boracay-fruit-bats-environmentalists-appeal/

SLEEPING BAT. A sleeping fruit bat in Boracay

FRIENDS OF THE FLYING FOXES

Starving flying foxes forced to search backyards and get trapped by fruit tree netting

"They're coming into town more often, largely because humans have cut down their forests.They prefer to eat blossoms from eucalypt trees but when they're really hungry they will eat things like backyard fruit and that's the reason why we're seeing them come into cities."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-25/fruit-tree-netting-ban-canberra-protect-flying-foxes/103872532
#bats #FlyingFoxes #pollinators #LoggingImpacts #deforestation #wildlife #biodiversity #plastic #traps

Koalas depend on bats

"Without the bats, the koalas wouldn't have the trees. So the bats are the ones that are fertilising those big eucalypts that koalas love."

"A lot of people overseas when they think of Australia, they think of koalas." In Australia "there's ...a lack of awareness about the role of bats in controlling insect populations, pollinating plants and spreading seeds, much like birds and bees do."

"Perceptions have consequences: The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) says more than half of the state's species are in decline, or their status is unknown, due to a lack of research."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-28/australia-bats-poor-reputation-covid-links-and-vampire-myths/103669082
#koalas #bats #FlyingFoxes #eucalypts #mining #misconception #superstition #EcologicalLiteracy

This year's little red flying fox (fruit bat) colony is huge! In 24 years here, I've never seen it this big. This photo shows the usual encampment alongside the western edge of Stoney Creek south of the bridge, but it doesn't usually go right to the creek's edge.

And this year they've crossed the creek, and also moved into the wetlands area north east of the bridge.

At dusk, the whole sky seems to be filled with bats.

#bats #FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #WildOz #LakeMacquarie #NewcastleAU

Little red flying foxes dangle from the branches of tall casuarina trees along the side of a creek, like large dark fruit. Shorter mangroves line the edge of the creek, between the water and the casuarinas. Seen above a wire fence on the side of a bridge across the creek. Small fluffy white clouds in the blue sky above.

Simbalito on #GrandTour on the #Seychelles: after a long #travel I had a short #hedgewatch on the #beach in the twilight & I saw #Batman🙀 No not Batman😹 but #FlyingFoxes/#MegaBates/#FruitBates/#Flughunde... Pawsome 🐾 I need to get better pictures...

#animals #nature #bat #wildlife #wildlifephotographie

Bird count at dusk started with flocks of ibis and rainbow lorikeets flying home to sleep and ended with 100s of fruit bat heading off for a night of eating and shagging down at the coast #GreatAussieBirdCount23 #AustralianWildlife #AustralianBirds #Birds #birdsOfOz #bats #FruitBats #FlyingFoxes

Help Austin Bat Refuge help bats! Support #Austin #Bat Refuge | Amplify Austin Day https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/austin-bat-refuge
>Learn more about Austin Bat Refuge and all the other organizations participating in Amplify Austin Day. #bats #FlyingFoxes #agave #tequila #AmplifyAustin

Mexican Freetail bats are the primary pollinators of the agave plant. No tequila without them! Let's support our flying mammal cousins!

The locals are out.
The background noise comes from our friendly mole crickets, very happy after recent rain.
#FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #Bats

A flying fox's long wingspan makes walking on the ground very difficult, so to drink, they dip and soak their bellies in water. But while the bats are looking for a drink, the river crocodiles are looking for food.

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@PrecautionaryPrinciple @kirt@mstdn.science

If the birds rely on the food then stressing wildlife can sometimes increase the risk, i think this has been observed with #Hendravirus in #Flyingfoxes

The most important thing to get out of your garden is any domestic birds, it might be good to convert any breakfast layers into a Sunday roast. (Obviously only if you have the skill and facilities to do that safely and humanely, I'm half joking, contact an expert of some sort for advice.)

A few days ago, we went for a walk along the Merri Creek in Clifton Hill near sunset. Perfect timing for viewing a great number of bats. Here's a sequence of photos toward Melbourne that show how quickly the sky changed over just eight minutes.

#BatsOfMastodon #Bats #FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #GreyHeadedFlyingFoxes #Melbourne #MerriCreek #CliftonHill #Sunset #Photography

View at sunset from Clifton Hill toward Melbourne. The sky is a light purple colour that fades to a light yellow, nearly white, near the horizon. In the distance, on the horizon are silhouettes of skyscrapers of the Melbourne CBD. Fruit bats are flying overhead toward the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne. In the foreground on the left side is a wooden hand-rail beside a walking track. In the centre is a scrubby, very steeply sloped, hill that angles down to the Merri Creek.

View at sunset from Clifton Hill toward Melbourne. This photo is taken a few minutes after the previous one. Now the sky is a dark blue that fades into purple and then a golden orange near the horizon. In the distance, on the horizon are silhouettes of skyscrapers of the Melbourne CBD. Lights are visible in the windows and rooftops of the buildings. Fruit bats are flying overhead toward the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne. In the foreground on the left side is a wooden hand-rail beside a walking track. In the centre is a scrubby, very steeply sloped, hill that angles down to the Merri Creek.

View at sunset from Clifton Hill toward Melbourne. This photo is taken a few minutes after the previous one. Now the sky is a very dark blue at the top, nearly black, that fades into purple and then a deep copper orange near the horizon. In the distance, on the horizon are silhouettes of skyscrapers of the Melbourne CBD. Lights are visible in the windows and rooftops of the buildings. Fruit bats are flying overhead toward the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne, and a few stars have become visible. The foreground is now in deep shadow but somewhere below is the Merri Creek.

@infinite8horizon @thecrobe @BlippyTheWonderSlug Nice closeup. Their faces really look like little foxes and fuzzy too. #FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #BatsOfMastodon #batstodon #mammals #Oceania

@infinite8horizon @thecrobe @BlippyTheWonderSlug Love these, thanks. It's weird to see #fruitbats in a modern *urban* western type environment. I prefer them on a tropical island setting personally. 🙂 #BatsOfMastodon #batstodon #FlyingFoxes #mammals #Oceania

@infinite8horizon @thecrobe Come to American Samoa and you can see #FruitBats throughout the day in broad daylight, sleeping in groups and flying. They seem to fly fast enough. Only native mammal to the islands and a protected species. #AmericanSamoa #mammals #FlyingFoxes #Indigenous #BatsOfMastodon #Batstodon

Hurrah some rain! This holiday so far has been intensely hot. Heading back to NZ tomorrow. Really going to miss the 4pm flight of massive bats/flying foxes, the doing nothing and it being the main achievement of the day, and not having any chores. Is there anything better about a holiday than NO CHORES?!
#Samoa #FlyingFoxes
[Video description: tropical rain on a balcony in front of palm trees]

#FlyingFoxes

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