Incredible mobility of flying foxes complicates conservation efforts

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 21, 2020

Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are the largest bats in the world, but new research in Australia suggests they aren't slowed by their size. According to a study published Friday in the journal BMC Biology, the extraordinary mobility of flying foxes makes management and conservation efforts especially difficult. Fruit bats move constantly among a constellation of roosts. Ecologists c