Eight years ago the colony started roosting year-round in their ... The Alice River colony is mostly made up of black flying foxes - the largest bat species in Australia. Picture: Shae Beplate.

Kate CJ Murphy, president of Townsville Bat Rescue Australia, posted a video to the organization's Facebook page showing the black flying fox swimming in the pool, unable to get out. Advertisement ...

Flying foxes are absent from many of ... or so they had increasingly become popular roosting spots. "There are isolated records now of the bats turning up in all sorts of weird places," Mr Pearson ...