More than 80% of flying fox colony wiped out as January heatwaves kill thousands of bats

Only 180 bats survived intense heat in South Australian town, including 34 babies that carers say face months of recovery ...
The Aviationist

First Australian Military Pilot Flies Boeing’s MQ-28A Ghost Bat

The first RAAF pilot has completed the training to be certified as launch and recovery operator for the MQ-28, becoming the first non-Boeing pilot on the program. Boeing’s MQ-28A Ghost Bat program ...
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Rescuer notices black blob on edge of pool and finds 'exhausted' wild animal

As the president of Townsville Bat Rescue Australia, CJ, a licensed animal carer, is always eager to help a flying friend in ...

Meet the unbearably cute patients at this one-of-a-kind hospital for bats

See inside Tolga Bat Hospital, a place for Australia’s injured and orphaned flying foxes.

Flying foxes die in their thousands in worst mass-mortality event since Australia’s black ...

Volunteers found thousands of dead bats at Melbourne’s Brimbank park, wildlife expert says ...
Action News Jax

Australian town being overrun by giant bats

If you think getting bitten by mosquitoes in your backyard is tough, try living in Batemans Bay, Australia, a town that's been overrun by 100,000 bats. These are grey-headed flying foxes, a bat ...
Mississippi State University

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

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 ...