The Grey-Headed Flying Fox

The Grey-headed Flying-fox is one of the largest bats in Australia with a wingspan of over 1 m. Mostly dark brown except for a grey head and orange-red mantle encircling the neck.

The young are usually born in September-October and are carried by the mother for the first three weeks,clinging to her teat with their special curved milk teeth and gripping her fur with their strong claws.

Although they appear in large groups, numbers of Grey-headed Flying Foxes are declining because of habitat clearing. These bats are important to healthy forest ecosystems because they pollinate and disperse the seeds of many important tree species.


It spends much of its time hanging from the branches of trees in forests or mangroves.

Their distrubution is in Eastern Australia: Queensland, NSW and Victoria. their habitat is in urban areas, forests and woodlands. The size of an average body is 23-28cm.There numbers are slowely decling and we need to solve the problem before they come a thing of the past. to stop the problem may include not chopping down as many trees or not chopping trees down where endangered animals live.



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