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 ...

Ingham Mayor Ramon Jayo was the man who headed the 2020 bat-buster operation which drove a long-term roost of flying foxes out of the Ingham CBD, and has successfully kept them away ever since.