Good evening trendsetters, this time we’re looking our upwardly mobile mates, the flying foxes. These megabats are crucial for the ecosystem and just like the dark of night, they’re shrouded in mystery. We’ll learn about how these majestic creatures live, travel, eat and how they’ve been impacted by humans… cheeky little buggers.
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Great video! The most important thing to remember with flying foxes is, we need 'em. If we lose them all, we lose the bush—Australian biodiversity would hit a cliff and all our eucalypts and the animals that rely on them will die.
How can you help? Not directly. Leave them alone; they'll leave you alone. Find out the phone number of your local carers/rescuers, and if you see a bat in trouble (if it's during the day, they're always in trouble unless they're in their camp), call the number. Don't touch 'em and don't go near 'em. If you get scratched or bitten by a bat—the bat must be captured and killed (to be tested for Lyssa virus).
Another way you can help is to find a carer/rescuer and support them. They take time out of their days to help these soaring St. Bernards and while the government does pay for their vaccinations against Lyssa virus, they don't cover all the other bits and pieces needed to take care of an injured bat.
I love them. We have a couple of camps up here in Maryborough QLD, including a small one up the back of my yard. I leave the fruit on my loquat for them and plenty of water around (I help the birds too, particularly my maggie families). Watching them fly around at sunset is just mesmerising. We need to stop thinking like the US; like everything is a threat and realise Elon is more likely to end us than save us and just embrace our natural environment.
Brilliant. Love the flying foxes. I live in a small east coast rural town and we have 2 camps here.. both by the river… I feel like if they are here in huge numbers, we must be doing something right.
I didn't know him personally but grew up near where the kid died from the bat scratch. Because of this I've been terrified of fruit bats most of my life. I had not idea how interesting and important they were until now. I'm still never going to touch one but this video game me a better opinion on them.
nice one happy x-mas mate
I have a deep and abiding love for bats? Microbats, macrobats, all the sky puppies are the bestest creeters there ever were. And yet, in spite of my absolute love for the flying cuties, my favourite 'bat' will always be the wombat ^_^
Brilliant doco, I've loved bats since childhood.
My favourite video of your channel.
The Cairns city council has repeatedly pushed the bats out. Its heartbreaking, especially since no city has made cats indoor only. As a country we are still prioritising feral over natives, its heartbreaking. (We have a dog and my partner doesn't try to stop her chasing native birds (🙄)
Thanks Darcy!
10.20 – "they were previously absent from Adelaide but since 2010 they've made themselves at home there. They truly must be desperate!" 😂
There's an area near the CBD where a colony roosts in the spring/summer months. There's a stage there where they hold concerts and events and stuff, so quite often you'll be out there for an evening show and see the bats all take flight overhead. Beautiful sight, think I took more pictures of them than the band I was there to see lol.
And the idiot ex Victorian MP, "Dim Sim" Smith wanted them eradicated from Yarra Bend
I love watching these guys flying over Melbourne from my balcony at sunset, and also checked out their habitat at Yarra Bend a few times. Such fascinating creatures! Thanks for this much needed video!
1:22 love the underpants gnome South Park reference 🤣😂
I love flying foxes! I always thought these were the ones I see at night sometimes here in North India, but now after this video I'm not sure… I never saw them in big groups like this, but their wingspan is really huge… But here it must be the indian flying fox, so maybe it behaves somewhat differently?
wonderful
Winged whippets, so good.
I just love these flying foxes! 🦇
I love my local sky pups. Fly, my lovelies! 💖🦇💖
Thank you so much for making this video. Fruit bats are so silly and quirky, and watching them interact with eachother is amusing. They were a positive precense during a more difficult chapter of my life, and it's partly why I love them so much.
I'm grateful to be close to a park where there are hundreds of these guys. There's a walking track that takes you through their roosting area, where you can watch them fly around and slap each other with their wings lol.
I loved your content. Thanks for educating me.
I showed you my duck 🤣
As a Tasmanian I often forget flying foxes exist, then when I travel interstate I'm like "Oh look!" Like some kind of brittish tourist. 😂🤣