Meet the flying fox, a mega‑bat that naps like a leather cloaked vampire for a very practical reason: hanging upside down is the only posture that lets a bat launch straight into flight. Unlike birds, bats can’t spring off the ground easily—their wings are long “hands,” so they drop from a perch, catch air, and flap into the night in one smooth move. Those tiny back claws are powerhooks: tendons lock automatically when they hang, so resting costs almost no energy and they won’t fall even when as
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This gorgeous creature is a Spectacled flying-fox, so named for the stunning straw coloured eye circles and the large matching ruff around the neck. They roost with Black flying-foxes and their distribution is restricted to the coastal wet tropics of north eastern Queensland. Sadly, Spectacled flying-foxes are federally listed as vulnerable to extinction and they suffer significant attrition each summer as many die from paralysis ticks, entrapment on barbed wire fences, the effects of cyclones a
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This beautiful spectacled flying fox pup has tick paralysis. We do searches in three colonies every day for a few months every year, hoping to be able to help these bats. they are critically endangered species. | Tolga Bat Hospital
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After rescuing a spectacled flying fox from the barbed wire fence beside this mandarin tree, we went back picking mandarins for our captive bats #bat #wildlife #animal #flyingfox #rescue #rehabilitation #australianwildlife #fnqwildliferescue #tolgabathospital #batbaby #explorefna #seeaustralia #thisisqueensland | Tolga Bat Hospital
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