Cocos Palms, a Menace to Australian Flying Foxes (Fruit Bats) HD

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The cocos palm is an introduced palm to Australia and was once popular with gardeners in the 1960's. Because of its fast growth, rapid propagation, high maintenance and harm it can cause to native wildlife it has become classified as an environmental weed in Brisbane Australia. The Flying Fox in particular is attracted to its readily available sweet smelling fruit, but what lurks around the corner is entanglement, barbed wire entrapment, starvation and tooth damage. Louise Saunders of Batcare Brisbane www.bats.org.au sees the problems first hand on many of the horrific rescues she is called to. WARNING: some images may disturb some viewers.

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[soldnerd68]

destroy the fruiting bodies on the palms ya dozy .........

[QuickGardens]

O my! I have never seen anything like this. bats with stuffed animals. It's like owning a pet cat. lol There is so much about earths wonderful creatures we don't know. Your doing a great job.

[guinnessgonz]

So sad to see these amazing creatures being put through terrible torture as a result of humans being incosiderate after inhabiting the foxes environment. I'm new to Brisbane and am in awe each and every night at the spectacle of these amazing creatures flying overhead each and every dusk.