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Fruit bats, 1991

Fruit bats, 1991

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Onus, Lin

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Bats

Sydney's evening skies contain flights of massed grey-headed flying foxes, the fruit bats that live in great numbers in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Gordon, Cabramatta and other pockets of bush across the city.

Aboriginal

Sculpture

Pteropus poliocephalus

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The grey-headed flying fox is a large native fruit bat that lives in large groups across Sydney and along the eastern coast of Australia. Listed as a vulnerable species as their numbers are declining due to clearing of their habitat.