How to Use flying fox in a Sentence

flying fox

noun
  • About half the flying fox pairs were nursing when researchers observed them.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2018
  • This is not the first time that flying foxes have suffered from the heat in Australia.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Sunbeams had lanced the darkness, and the flying foxes were returning to the tree to roost.
    — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Pictures show rows of flying fox bodies collected from trees or where they were found after dropping to the ground.
    — National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The viral photo of the flying fox appears to be zoomed in which would helps account for how massive the animal looks.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2020
  • On the hottest days, a refreshing mist will cool down flying foxes, which have suffered mass death in Australian heat waves.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Others, like flying foxes (pictured above), are dying en masse from Australia’s record heat.
    — National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Dead flying foxes are being reported across the state of New South Wales.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Experts link the plight of flying foxes to the globe's steadily rising temperature.
    — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
  • At least 120 flying fox pups were brought in for hydration before being returned to their mothers.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • In addition to apes, the facility also housed flying foxes and free-roaming birds.
    — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Real estate agents are highly unlikely to go the way of the Caspian tiger or Guam flying fox anytime soon.
    — Kevin Markarian, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Ditto for flying fox moms dangling from tree branches in Sri Lanka who seemed to favor keeping their babies on the left.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
  • Now, another unique species, a fruit bat known as the Mauritian flying fox, is being pushed toward extinction.
    — Rachel Nuwer, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2019
  • The similarity to bats and flying foxes stops there, however.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Through the remainder of 2018, a severe drought and record-setting heat waves led hundreds of thousands of flying foxes to fall dead from the sky.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Many of the affected flying foxes were reported to be babies or mothers, which will pose a challenge for the population's future.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Despite how adorable munching Miss Alicia is, little flying foxes are so common in Australia that some farmers see them as pests.
    — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • When a field biologist takes serum from flying foxes in Bangladesh or bleeds little bats in southern China, some of those samples go straight to Lipkin.
    — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
  • As Chenoweth reports, volunteers monitoring another flying fox colony in nearby Picton did not report any deaths.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The trailer hints at Matangi's magical capabilities when she's seen surrounded by a tornado of flying foxes.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
  • One of the bats Brook and her fellow researchers studied was the Australian black flying fox, which has reserves of interferon on perpetual standby to fight infection.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Like clockwork, each evening, up to hundreds of these fruit-eating flying foxes, which can reach up to five feet in wingspan, leave the mainland palms for their tiny offshore island habitats, which conveniently dot the coast just beyond the resort.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Some of the animal species that were imported, including a flying fox and monitor lizard, require a permit to import because of regulations on the trade of threatened and endangered animals.
    — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • Another twist in the paralysis mystery is that flying foxes—a type of fruit bat that is usually nocturnal—are also being found with symptoms resembling LPS.
    — Ayla Gard, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • Cunnilingus increases duration of copulation in the Indian flying fox.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2018
  • Fans of the video games will also recognize Colleen O’Shaughnessey’s Tails, an anthropomorphic flying fox who tags along for the ride after making his big-screen debut in the first movie’s credits sequence.
    — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Australian government has already declared flying foxes a vulnerable species in the country because their populations are declining due to habitat loss and human interference.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • There is perhaps no better place to go bird-watching this holiday season - and no easier way to get so close to so many exotic flying creatures, including rhinoceros hornbills, Malayan flying fox fruit bats and laughing kookaburras.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Hundreds of fruit-eating bats known as flying foxes have been reported dead in the Greater Sydney area, and scientists say their bodies lack the ability to regulate internal body temperature when weather outside rises above 104 degrees.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018

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