by Janine Duffy | March 12, 2020 | Maximum Wildlife, Wildlife
by Jessica Toreto Foxes that fly? What? Nooo! Flying foxes are gentle giants with a misleading name. They are bats! Yes, the largest bats on earth and the only mammals capable of active and sustained flight. Flying-foxes establish noisy daytime camps in trees where...
by Janine Duffy | July 10, 2019 | Maximum Wildlife, Wildlife
On a trip to the United States years ago I met a family while waiting for some food. Chatting, the father asked me where I was from. “Australia,” I replied. He bent down to his small daughter and said: “Honey, this lady is from the place where kangaroos live.”...
by Janine Duffy | March 20, 2019 | Wildlife
Seeing the Grey-headed Flying-foxes of Bairnsdale, East Gippsland is one the world’s top wildlife spectacles. .. We parked the car and walked into the forest beside the river. The tree branches joined up over our heads, so looking up was a deep dark green with only...
