Episode 15

Pop quiz answers

1. What are two other common names for flying-foxes?

Bats, fruit bats

2. What’s the words for flying-fox in Kabi Kabi and Jinibara language?

Kabi Kabi - Garrimundi, Girrimundi or Currimundi

Jinbara - Bar bar.

3. What’s the name of an area on the Sunshine Coast which means Place of flying-fox?

Currimundi.

4. What are three things about flying-foxes which can make them difficult neighbours?

They can be smelly, noisy, and messy.

5. What are the two main roles flying-foxes play in the eco-system?

Pollination and seed dispersal.

6. How many seeds can one flying-fox disperse over a single night?

Up to 60,000.

7. How far can a flying-fox fly in one night searching for food?

50km.

8. What does the dispersal method involve?

Using things such as smoke, loud noises and bright lights at dawn to scare flying-foxes away.

9. Why are flying-foxes living increasingly closer to houses?

• Habitat loss – man made threats – building and development.
• Environmental threats – natural disasters from global warming.

10. What are three positives of creating a buffer to separate flying-foxes and people?

• Distance between humans and bats – less impact.
• Flying-foxes aren’t harmed in the process.
• It has little effect on the environment.

11. If you find a sick or injured flying-fox, what should you do?

Do NOT touch it. Tell an adult. And call the RSPCA – 1300 ANIMAL.

Sunshine Coast Council has plenty of flying-fox resources if you’d like to learn more about flying-foxes.

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Voiced by

Tyron de Kauwe

Uncle Lyndon Davis

Uncle BJ Murphy

Sarah Jones

Monika O’Hanlon

Produced by

Monika O’Hanlon

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