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Grey-headed Flying Fox

• Element 1: Emblem

  Behaviour - Reforestation

  Flying-foxes create new forests by dispersing seeds from the fruit they eat. Flying up to 60km a night between food trees and their camp, they maintain the genetic diversity of native trees and reforest gaps in habitat. As the climate changes, this ecosystem service will become increasingly important to facilitate the flow of adaptive genes between trees and revegetate cleared land.

• Element 2: Pattern

  Miscellaneous - seed dispersers

  In a single night, one flying fox can disperse up to 60,000 seeds over a 60km radius. Flying foxes play a vital role in the seed dispersal of native plant and tree species, such as Eucalypts, Banksia, Melaleuca and Grevillea.