They were fruit bats; they were also known as flying foxes.

Just as stressed humans are more vulnerable to infection, so are flying foxes.

In the new study, Plowright and colleagues created computer models of Hendra-virus transmission in flying foxes.

The adventure park had a network of trails complete with a chair lift, flying foxes and cafe.

Known variously as megabats, flying foxes or fruit bats, a number of tropical bats have also grown large.

The park's operations manager, Mike Johnstone, said the cafe and flying foxes would be the first things to re-open.

And the flying foxes.

Just above the junction there is a scrub of large fig-trees, on which there were a great number of flying foxes.

They are almost the only people in the Archipelago who eat the great fruit-eating bats called by us " flying foxes."

The golden flowers, grouped in huge heads, are rich in nectar, attracting birds and butterflies by day and flying foxes at night.

Our correspondent says sources from the islands report that flying foxes will be on sale in the Port Vila market when it reopens.

We were ready to believe in flying foxes, flying squirrels, that wild turkeys dance quadrilles-eventhat you must never sleep in the moonlight.

In the empty courtyards the trees were hung with flying foxes waiting for nightfall to sweep in clouds across the plains toward Ranchipur.

Forster reported having seen a large casuarina tree loaded with crows, but they proved to be that pest of the fruit grower-flyingfoxes.

The night passed without inconvenience beneath a vast mass of bushy ferns, under which enormous bats, properly called flying foxes, were flapping about.

The animals were not numerous; he gives kangaroo, wolf (the dingo or native dog), bats ( flying foxes), wild cats (dasyurus), and opossums.