A 33 year old one-eyed flying fox who spent most of his life in a cage, enjoyed his sunset years at the Bat World Sanctuary ...
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 ...
Ingham Mayor Ramon Jayo was the man who headed the 2020 bat-buster operation which drove a long-term roost of flying foxes out of the Ingham CBD, and has successfully kept them away ever since.
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 ...