Australia's ecosystem could face a disastrous future if the cause of a mystery illness killing two of the country's most ...

record-breaking heat in Australia's north wiped out almost one-third of the nation's spectacled flying foxes, according to researchers. The animals, also known as spectacled fruit bats ...

A record number of lorikeets and flying foxes are being hospitalised with a mystery illness putting wildlife volunteers under ...

Flying Foxes and Lorikeets, native to Australia, are mysteriously falling ... like Gold-Coast rehabilitation service Bats QLD, called the spike in deaths as a 'wildlife crisis'.

Volunteers for Bats QLD reported finding flying foxes paralysed in water for so long their 'skin is literally flaying off' and infected with maggots while still alive. 'Can you imagine the pain ...

A new combo of climate and habitat crises, along with immune system stress, is driving more bat-borne viruses to afflict us ...

For 15 years a street of Alice River residents have been attempting to live their lives with a flying fox colony hanging over ...

Phnom Penh’s urban landscape has long been home to a fascinating yet elusive species: the flying fox, whose “sanctuary tree” in the capital is even marked on Google Maps. These large fruit bats, known ...

Flying Fox Paralysis Syndrome and extreme heat are ... Also incurable, both rabies and Australian bat lyssavirus belong to a group of viruses called lyssaviruses. Both are spread by bites and ...

Flying foxes are ... year after thousands of flying foxes damaged about 140 trees with their collective weight. Three breeds of the animals, also known as fruit bats, migrate in groups to certain ...

Instead, he explained that their sudden absence could be linked to the behaviour of hornbills, which are known to chase the bats away from their roosts. “These flying foxes have been there for a ...