Every summer, 300,000 flying foxes turn a peaceful Hervey Bay suburb into a noisy, smelly battleground between wildlife protection and human comfort. While the colony of little red flying foxes has ...

Thousands of flying foxes have perished. This is most serious for the gray-headed flying fox which is a vulnerable species. Mothers with pups are most affected, making it harder for population numbers ...

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 ...

There are over 1,400 bat species in the world, and they are almost exclusively nocturnal. Bats have traditionally been classified as Microchiroptera, or microbats, and Megachiroptera, or megabats.

While the colony of little red flying foxes has moved on now for another year, every November for the past several years, it has arrived and spent the warmer months roosting in the trees at the ...

Flying foxes are a type of bat within the Chiroptera order of mammals. There are several different species and, unfortunately, two native Australian species have suffered sudden and dramatic losses ...