One particularly interesting adaptation is that they digest food in as little as 20 minutes so they can quickly excrete waste to stay as light as possible.

During the warm summer days, they have developed a behavioral adaptation of trying to cool themselves by fanning their wings around them or licking their bodies ...

The year 5 unit “Adaptations of flying-foxes”, introduces students to how flying-foxes have adapted to their environment. It allows students to explore the bat ...

The adaptation for foraging in human areas leads to overlap zones between flying foxes, humans, and domestic animals; this factor may drive the spread of ...

Units of behaviour are ordered contex- tually – solitary units are separated into roosting, stationary actions, locomotion, auto grooming and feeding, and ...

It allows students to explore the bat wing and compare it to the human arm. It looks at how the mega-bats and micro-bats have evolved differently.

Flying Foxes also have some incredible behavioral adaptations too, like how in the summer they use their wings as fans to cool them down. They also sleep ...

The flying foxes performed both solitary and social behaviors besides sleeping (Figs. 2 and 3). This study revealed that sleeping was the most common behavior ...

They have claws for hanging and moving, and their thumb claw helps them to move around trees, reach for food and socialise. Grey-headed flying foxes have rough ...

Flying-foxes are hard-working little Aussies. They are FIFO workers on the night shift – flying out from their camps at dusk to feed on flowering or fruiting ...