Flying Foxes: Fruit and Blossom Bats of Australia

Flying Foxes is an illustrated guide dedicated to Australia’s thirteen species of Megachiroptera. These ‘mega’ bats do not comply with standard bat stereotypes: while they are nocturnal, they live in forests rather than caves, they navigate by sight rather than echolocation, and their long snouts and large ears and eyes give them a canine like look – hence the description of ‘flying foxes’.   Discusses contentious matters such as the management of flying fox populations and the recent incidents of viral diseases jumping from flying foxes to humans.