
ANI014-00065
A volunteer at the Australian Bat Clinic checks on a grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus). Bats act as pollinators and seed dispensers,however bats are in serious decline around Australia largely due to entanglement in fruit tree netting.
Keywords
- Australia
- bat
- bat clinic
- colony
- copy space
- Female
- flying fox
- gray headed flying fox
- grey-headed flying fox
- Human
- Interaction
- mammal
- medium shot
- Pteropus poliocephalus
- rare
- rehabilitate
- side view
- Volunteer
- vulnerable
- Woman
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