Next to Rockhampton Airport is a large botanical garden filled with thousands of flying foxes, and when the sun sets these creatures come alive and cause headaches for incoming flights.

Little red flying foxes use their feet and jointed thumbs to move nimbly about treetop branches. Despite the old “blind as a bat” axiom these and other flying foxes have excellent senses of ...

A 33 year old one-eyed flying fox named Statler, who was born in 1987 and lived in a cage for most of his life, enjoyed his sunset years at the Bat World Sanctuary in Weatherford, Texas.