The black flying-fox is a large fruit bat found in northern and eastern Australia. Its Japanese name also appears in the Japanese Mammalogical Society’s standard mammal-name list.
Its short fur is usually black, though some individuals have a reddish or yellow-brown collar. Grey tips can give the belly fur a frosted look.
In Queensland, the National Flying Fox Monitoring Program recorded 455 winter roosts from 2007 to 2020. Researchers measured native and non-native winter foraging resources within 20-km buffers around each roost, then compared those measures with roost occupancy.
Neither the extent, spatial distribution nor annual reliability of winter habitat explained roost occupancy. Across the sampled roosts, occupancy did not track those three resource measures, despite the study’s comparison of native and non-native plants.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Variation in winter roost occupancy was not explained by the extent or distribution of native and non-native winter food habitat within the study’s 20-km buffers.