Post by Australian Wildlife Conservancy

No me? No trees! 🌳🦇 Flying foxes are one of Australia’s most well-known yet least appreciated mammals. They are also critical ecosystem engineers. By dispersing seeds and pollen across vast distances, they build and sustain forests in ways few other species can. These intelligent, highly nomadic animals use sophisticated navigation and memory to criss-cross thousands of kms each year, connecting fragmented habitats as they go. Research shows a single flying fox can disperse up to 60,000 seeds in one night — and in cleared regions, seeds dispersed by flying foxes can account for up to 95% of forest regeneration! Learn more about Australia’s flying foxes, and what AWC is doing to protect them via the link in our comments. 📸 phototrip, cbstockfoto, Juergen Freund, Michael Nolan, Puffin's Pictures, Jonathan Ayres, NSP-RF / Alamy