flying-fox

Surveys estimate Australia's flying-fox population has declined by nearly a third to 400,000 animals since 1989.

In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry David Winning 2011

The next step involved a trip to an Asian supermarket to buy fermented shrimp paste—which the Bat Club noted is used in Southeast Asia as a flying-fox repellant on commercial fruit trees.

In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry David Winning 2011

The shadow of a flying-fox drifted by in velvet silence overhead.

Chapter 10 2010

Two of these species are globally threatened: the vulnerable Seram flying-fox (Pteropus ocularis) and lesser tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene minutus).

Buru rain forests 2008

The endangered Marianas flying-fox (Pteropus mariannus) is well-distributed throughout the Marianas, but is restricted to inaccessible cliff limestone vegetation or interior volcanic ravine forests.

Marianas tropical dry forests 2008

Other species present are bare-backed fruit-bat Dobsonia inermis, Pacific flying-fox Pteropus tonganus, spurred horseshoe-bat Hipposideros calcaratus and large Melanesian bent-wing bat Miniopterus propitristis.

East Rennell, Solomon Islands 2008

The area still supports nationally important populations of Lyle's flying-fox (Pteropus lylei).

Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests 2008

Additionally, two bats are considered endangered (Chalinolobus neocaledonicus and Miniopterus robustior), and two more are vulnerable (long-tailed fruit bat, Notopteris macdonaldi, and ornate flying-fox, Pteropus ornatus).

New Caledonia rain forests 2008

As night approaches, bats such as the large flying-fox (Pteropus vampyrus) and flying squirrels begin to appear.

Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

Another bat species, the extinct Guam flying-fox (Pteropus takudae), was last seen in the 1960s.

Marianas tropical dry forests 2008