Black Flying Fox
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Black Flying Fox
The "black flying-fox bat" generally roosts high on the branches of trees; roosting in groups of up to many thousands, also known as "camps". These "bat camps" are found in mangroves, paperbark swamps, or patches of rainforest. They mostly eat pollen and nectar from blossoms of eucalypts, paper-barks, and turpentine trees (some people spell it terpentine). They also eat flowers and fruit, including introduced and commercial fruits like mangos, or mangoes. From my research I find that turpentine tree is a common name for an evergreen tree, a tree that retains its foilage throughout the year. Native to coastal areas of eastern Australia.Unfortunately, hese creatures are vulnerable to loss of feeding areas due to clearing of native vegetation and land degradation from agriculture. They are the "largest species of flying-fox" in Australia. Flying at speed of 35 to forty kilometers an hour and are known to travel over 50 kilometers from their camp to feeding areas. Also known to often share their camps with other flying-fox species.
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