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Pop quiz answers1. What are two other common names for flying-foxes? Bats, fruit bats2. What’s the words for flying-fox in Kabi Kabi and Jinibara language?Kabi Kabi - Garrimundi, Girrimundi or CurrimundiJinbara - Bar bar.3. What’s the name of an area on the Sunshine Coast which means Place of flying-fox? Currimundi.4. What are three things about flying-foxes which can make them difficult neighbours? They can be smelly, noisy, and messy.5. What are the two main roles flying-foxes play in the eco-system? Pollination and seed dispersal.6. How many seeds can one flying-fox disperse over a single night? Up to 60,000.7. How far can a flying-fox fly in one night searching for food? 50km.8. What does the dispersal method involve? Using things such as smoke, loud noises and bright lights at dawn to scare flying-foxes away.9. Why are flying-foxes living increasingly closer to houses? Habitat loss – man made threats – building and development. Environmental threats – natural disasters from global warming.10. What are three positives of creating a buffer to separate flying-foxes and people?Distance between humans and bats – less impact.Flying-foxes aren’t harmed in the process.It has little effect on the environment.11. If you find a sick or injured flying-fox, what should you do? Do NOT touch it. Tell an adult. And call the RSPCA – 1300 ANIMAL.Sunshine Coast Council has plenty of flying-fox resources if you’d like to learn more about flying-foxes.Thanks for listening! Please share our adventure with your friends.Voiced byTyron de KauweUncle Lyndon DavisUncle BJ MurphySarah JonesMonika O’HanlonProduced byMonika O’Hanlon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pop quiz questions1. What are two other common names for flying-foxes? 2. What’s the words for flying-fox in Kabi Kabi and Jinibara language?3. What’s the name of an area on the Sunshine Coast which means Place of the flying-fox?4. What are three things about flying-foxes which can make them difficult neighbours? 5. What are the two main roles flying-foxes play in nature or the eco-system? 6. How many seeds can one flying-fox disperse over a single night? 7. How far can a flying-fox fly in one night searching for food? 8. What does the dispersal method involve? 9. Why are flying-foxes living increasingly closer to houses? 10. What are three positives of creating a buffer to separate flying-foxes and people?11. If you find a sick or injured flying-fox, what should you do? For the answers, go to episode 15. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nice work! You’ve made some brilliant choices and it seems both humans and flying-foxes can live near one another in peace! Scroll down to episode 14.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The situation improved as Sam realised how important flying-foxes are for the environment. Perhaps next time we could’ve done things a little differently? Maybe after making a buffer between humans and flying-foxes, which improves the situation almost instantly, we could do some education. That way we can create empathy for the flying-foxes, as the public is made aware of just how important these creatures are. But we got there in the end, so that’s the main thing! Go to episode 14. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So we’ve created the buffer and that’s definitely improved the situation. And as it was only 30 Batty Bucks, it means we still have money left in the budget… Now you want to do some Education which only costs 15 Batty Bucks. We’ll have to organise some school talks, do some interviews on radio, television, share resources online, create video content, maybe start up a podcast – let’s get the word out about why flying-foxes are so important – stat!As Sam and other members of the community learnt more about flying-foxes you created a sense of empathy. And although it hasn’t removed the situation it has defused it a little. Because you’ve only spent 55 Batty Bucks, you can afford to create a new habitat – which will hopefully make the situation better in the future. So let’s cracking, head to episode 13. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.