Its diet is special as well—it's a fruit eater that subsists mainly on a single type of fig ... The spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) is a species of fruit-eating megabat that's ...

Now, another unique species, a fruit bat known as the Mauritian flying fox, is being pushed toward ... the population—those that likely aren’t eating farmers’ fruit. Flying foxes tend ...

Figs are in season and ready to be sliced onto charcuterie boards, mixed into jams, and tossed into fresh salads. But if ...

Flying fox rescuers in Sydney are experiencing ... also had a bat caught in his net this week after it tried to eat from his fig tree. "The poor thing, I tried to free him but it was going ...

It comes after more than 2,000 flying foxes died from heat stress last month in eastern Victoria, destroying a suspected third of the local flying fox ... fruit than what they actually eat." ...

By the time you come to eat the fig there probably won’t be any sign of them, so where do the wasps go? Well, the fruit sort of eats them. Fig wasps have a fascinating life cycle that involves ...

Fruit bats. Whatever name you choose, these fox-faced creatures are remarkable ... Electric wires were used to kill many spectacled flying foxes to prevent them eating lychees in the 1990s ...

with the largest being the aptly named "large flying fox," boasting a wingspan of up to 1.5 metres—the longest of any bat. These fruit-eating bats consume up to 35% of their body weight daily.