TheBanyanTree: Bats and Rupert Bunny

[Peter Macinnis]

NancyIee at aol.com wrote:

> You want fruit bats, send a small child outside with a very ripe peach.  
> Child will soon be surrounded, like puppies after a hamburger. 

While we like them, we have a problem with fruit bats here in Australia 
(we call them "flying foxes", just to be contrary): they carry a 
lyssavirus.  This is related to rabies (which doesn't occur in 
Australia) and you can read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_bat_lyssavirus

The other problem with the central city flying foxes is that they are 
damaging heritage trees, planted almost 200 years ago.

peter

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