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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

  Behaviour - fly at dusk

  Flying foxes fly out at dusk, using sight and smell to forage for fruit and flowers and return to the colony in the morning to sleep