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In eastern Australia, this included the deadly Hendra virus, which the flying foxes shed in their urine and feces.
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
As a result, the government mandated that all fruit trees attractive to flying fox bats be separated from pig farms to minimize the chance of transmission, a simple precaution that appears to have worked for 20 years now.
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Catherine MacHalaba, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2020
Included in the group of animals now declared extinct are the Little Mariana fruit bat, also known as a flying fox, in Guam; two species of fish, including the San Marcos gambusia in Texas and Scioto madtom in Ohio, and eight species of mussels.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023
According to the Queensland government, flying foxes eat flowers, fruit and leaves from more than 100 native plant species.
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Ayla Gard, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1759, in the meaning defined above
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“Flying fox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flying%20fox. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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