Flying Foxes
Roost fidelity in spectacled flying-foxes Pteropus conspicillatus: implications for conservation and management
... individual flying-foxes within a day-time camp has important implications for our understanding of their general biology, conservation and ...of flying- foxes within a camp is ...spectacled ...
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Tooth wear, body mass index and management options for edentulous black flying-foxes (Pteropus alecto Gould) in the Townsville district, north Queensland, Australia
... important flying fox camp, comprising a permanent presence of approximately 500-1000 animals (Parsons ...black flying foxes is periodically ...
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Tick paralysis in spectacled flying-foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) in North Queensland, Australia: impact of a ground-dwelling ectoparasite finding an arboreal host
... Data were collected by staff and volunteers of the Tolga Bat Hospital between September and January each year between 1998 and 2010 during their daily searches for ailing flying foxes. The number of dead ...
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Studying mobile species in spatially complex ecosystems: Australian flying-foxes as a case study
... of flying-foxes in the region. Flying-foxes and birds had opposing directional movements with flying-foxes moving toward the urban centre in the evening whilst diurnally active ...
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Studying mobile species in spatially complex ecosystems: Australian flying-foxes as a case study
... Australian flying-foxes typically leave their day roost and fly to foraging sites within 30 minutes after sunset (Parry-Jones and Augee, 1992, Welbergen, 2006), this thesis, chapter 5), and it may be the ...
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Neuro-angiostrongylosis in wild Black and Grey-headed flying foxes (Pteropus spp)
... 86 flying foxes with CNS disease, 16 were diagnosed with neuro-angiostrongylosis (19%), indicating this to be a common cause of neurological disease in flying ...another flying fox was also ...
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Routes of Hendra virus excretion in naturally infected flying-foxes: implications for viral transmission and spillover risk
... between flying-foxes, and from flying- foxes to horses, the results of this study provide new empirical evidence on the most likely sources of HeV exposure for both flying-foxes ...
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Soaring and non soaring bats of the family pteropodidae (flying foxes, Pteropus spp ): wing morphology and flight performance
... On oceanic islands, some large diurnal megachiropteran bat species (flying foxes; Pteropus spp.) frequently use thermal or slope soaring during foraging flights to save energy. We compared the flight ...
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Time of year, age class and body condition predict Hendra virus infection in Australian black flying foxes (Pteropus alecto)
... A parkland roost in the town of Boonah in southeast Queensland (27.992°S, 152.681°E) was purposively selected as the sampling location for several related studies because of its apparent permanency, substantial size, ...
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Modelling transmission of Hendra virus from flying foxes to horses
... The main objective of my PhD project was to develop models that could be used to improve the understanding of the HeV spillover system and our predictive capacity. Along these lines (Chapter 2) I contributed to better ...
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Natural Hendra virus infection in flying-foxes - tissue tropism and risk factors
... naturally-infected flying-foxes is consis- tent with previous experimental infection studies ...headed flying-foxes ...in flying-foxes, and a plausible mechanism for the ...
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DISPERSAL OF POND APPLE (Annona glabra) BY RODENTS, AGILE WALLABIES AND FLYING FOXES
... for flying foxes to swallow them any movement would occur ...which flying foxes could potentially spread seeds is by carrying off fruit in their ...
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Phylogeny of Hepatocystis parasites of Australian flying foxes reveals distinct parasite clade
... for any taxonomic revisions of described morphospecies (Galen et al., 2018). Based on morphological criteria, four haemosporidian genera have been reported in Australian bat hosts: Hepatocystis, Poly- chromophilus, ...
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Climatic suitability influences species specific abundance patterns of Australian flying foxes and risk of Hendra virus spillover
... Using ecological niche models of the four flying fox species we were able to identify which species are most likely linked to spillover events using the concept of distance to the niche c[r] ...
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Flight Physiology of Flying Foxes, Pteropus Poliocephalus
... Measurements of respiratory exchange ratios, pulmonary water loss, respiratory frequencies, heart rates and body temperatures of both bats flying at intermediate airspeeds were compared [r] ...
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... In the case of the electrocution of bats on overhead power cables, it has been recommended elsewhere that cables be spaced at a distance from each other that is greater than the wingspan of smaller, non-pteropodid ...
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Foxes, hounds, and horses : Who or which?
... of foxes by farmers to reduce their predation on stock, and there is more opposition to hunting than there is to the killing of animals for ...ones. Foxes are familiar animals in urban Britain, where they ...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle For Surveillance
... industry. Flying-wing concept is one of the most attractive ...The flying wing is tailless design that integrates the wing and ...Generally, flying-wing aircraft may be categorized in three types, ...
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Head mounted sensors reveal visual attention of free flying homing pigeons
... During such scanning of the environment, the birds changed the pattern of their head movements in response to prominent visual cues in the environment. For example, we found that head movements decreased when our birds ...
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Mesocarnivores and macroparasites: altitude and land use predict the ticks occurring on red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)
... Moreover, foxes can harbor high numbers of different tick species and the faunal composition of these tick loads may differ from site to site ...by foxes were extensively studied in western [19–24] and ...
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