Flying foxes. Megabats. Fruit bats. Whatever name you choose, these fox-faced creatures are remarkable. Our four species help pollinate eucalyptus trees in eastern Australia, spread the seeds of ...

The bats typically roost in emergent trees during the day and go on nightly flights to their feeding grounds. Zoo visitors can find the flying foxes in their new habitat adjacent to the tree ...

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When Australia's black flying foxes are well-fed, they tend to be healthy. A lack of food stresses the bats — and stress causes them to shed, or release, viruses into the environment.

Flying foxes are absent from many of their usual summer camping spots in New South Wales this year but are congregating in unexpected places in large numbers, sometimes as unwanted guests.