Flying Fox Camps

Listening to a flying fox callny is really hearing one of the last fragments of ancient acoustic australia, if you will. The camp can be absolutely silent when all the bats are asleep, and then you'll just start to hear like a chirruping and a trilling of individuals as they wake up. Groups of noisy youngsters in various parts of the camp spend lots of time talking. It has been said that the sound of a flying fox colony is thesound of a football grond final. Here in melbourne, we've lost well over 95 % of the grey headed flying fox since 19 hundred pre human australia was absolutely teeming with wild life.