Flying Foxes

Flying Foxes
Author: Leslie S. Hall
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2000
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780868405612

Sometimes kept as family pets, flying foxes are much beloved in Australia. This work covers issues such as descriptions of Australia's 13 species of flying foxes and blossom bats, their physiology of flight, ecology, diet and behaviour, and management of populations.

Flying Fox Bats

Flying Fox Bats
Author: Pamela J. Gerholdt
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781562395032

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and environment of flying fox bats.

Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree

Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree
Author: Albert Wendt
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1999-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780824818234

This early collection of eight short stories and a novella is vintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caught up in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviable directness and with deep feeling: comedy and tragedy are often hard to distinguish as his characters struggle to come to terms with their changing world.

Flying Foxes

Flying Foxes
Author: Quinn M. Arnold
Publisher: Creative Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781628326819

Illuminating the unique physical features and behaviors of six nocturnal animals, this new series takes a narrative approach toward life-science topics. As we peer into nocturnal forests and skies, from nighttime awakening to sunlight retreat, atmospheric text and images knit together stories of survival, noting the adaptations that enable each creature to carve out its own niche in its particular habitat. A detailed diagram points out such characteristics in-depth, allowing more visual learners to match facts with real images. Peer into the nocturnal skies with this high-interest introduction to the large fruit bats known as flying foxes.

Flying Foxes Are Not Foxes!

Flying Foxes Are Not Foxes!
Author: Jamie Honders
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1482407841

Flying foxes aren’t really foxes—they’re bats. Compared to many kinds of bats, flying foxes can look like giants. Some can have a 6-foot wingspan! Inside this volume, vibrant photographs of these awesome animals allow readers to get up close and personal with flying foxes in the wild. Readers will be delighted to learn about the different kinds of flying foxes, where they live, what they eat, and much more.

Bangu the Flying Fox

Bangu the Flying Fox
Author: Jillian Taylor
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0855757000

This beautifully illustrated story, from the Yuin people of Wallaga Lake, New South Wales, tells the tale of Bangu, the Flying Fox, and the lesson she learns about sticking by her friends. With the permission of the elders of Wallaga Lake, their people's story is retold in this form so that children everywhere can share it and learn from it.

Shimmer

Shimmer
Author: Deborah Bird Rose
Publisher: EUP
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-10-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781474490399

The highly anticipated final book by the leading anthropologist and environmental humanities scholar Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018)

Flying Foxes Are Not Foxes!

Flying Foxes Are Not Foxes!
Author: Jamie Honders
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 148240785X

Flying foxes aren’t really foxes—they’re bats. Compared to many kinds of bats, flying foxes can look like giants. Some can have a 6-foot wingspan! Inside this volume, vibrant photographs of these awesome animals allow readers to get up close and personal with flying foxes in the wild. Readers will be delighted to learn about the different kinds of flying foxes, where they live, what they eat, and much more.

Australian Bats

Australian Bats
Author: Sue Churchill
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1741766974

An identification guide to all 75 known species of Australian bats. Species are illustrated with colour photographs, and each species account includes a detailed description of the bat, measurements, a distribution map and notes on where they live, what they eat, and how they find food and reproduce. Australian Bats also provides general information on these fascinating animals: their evolution, why they hang upside down, roosting and reproduction, echolocation, and how to catch, survey and care for bats, including health hazards for carers. An identification key to the bat families is included, with important features illustrated by line drawings and photographs, as well as illustrated keys to all the species.

The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats

The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats
Author: Bradley Law
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2011
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0980327245

This book, the Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats, follows from the successful 3-day forum of the same name held in April 2007 at the Australian Museum. The forum was organised jointly by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW and the Australasian Bat Society.