The megabats of Adelaide: SA adjusts to new and growing colonies of flying foxes

With wingspans over a metre and an insatiable love for fruit and nectar, grey-headed flying foxes have settled in massive numbers across South AustraliaGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA stand of pine trees near the Adelaide zoo erupts every sunset as tens of thousands of megabats take to the sky. The metre-wide, scalloped wings of these grey-headed flying foxes silhouette against the sky like the summoning sign for a certain superhero.Flying foxes first appeared in numbers in Adelaide around 2010 after climate change-related food shortages drove them further south. Drought conditions and habitat loss forced them out of NSW and Victoria, and once they found a good spot they settled in - and bred. Continue reading...