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A baby black flying foxes is bottle fed after dry winds and low humidity led to massive food shortages and deaths in its eastern Australia habitat. Photograph: Mandi Griffith
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Flying foxes, including threatened species, have been dying or taken into care in large numbers due to a food shortage in their habitat in eastern Australia. Authorities in Queensland and New South Wales say there have been increased reports since September of sick and dead flying-foxes in an area stretching from northern NSW up to Gladstone in Queensland.

 

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