The Conversation

Yes, spectacled flying foxes are noisy and drop poo everywhere. But our rainforests need them

I am a non-executive director of Terrain NRM Ltd, which may contract with the Commonwealth and the State of Queensland for works associated with the spectacled flying fox. I have no direct association ...

'Their lives are more important than bats': Residents in Gympie, Queensland battle soaring flying fox colony

Gympie residents are pleading with state and federal governments to act as one of Australia’s largest flying fox colonies ...

Colony of flying foxes causing havoc in Gympie, Queensland

A Queensland council has been forced to consider a housing buyback scheme for residents living amid a colony of bats that ...
Mississippi State University

From the Deep South to Down Under: MSU flying fox research, new technology combine to prevent viral transmission

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 ...