How to Use flying fox in a Sentence

flying fox

noun

• 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
• And at least 500 flying fox bats died because of the heat.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 10 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
• The Indian flying fox, one of more than 1,100 species of bats, is also known as the giant fruit bat.
  — Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2014
• About half the flying fox pairs were nursing when researchers observed them.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 13 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
• 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
• Enlarge / Sonic joins forces with a two-tailed flying fox named Tails to defeat Dr. Robotnik.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The hunters were looking for roosting bats, mainly fruit bats and flying foxes—for them, a lucrative prize that can be shipped to villages in the north as part of the bushmeat trade.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Among the animals on display here: Rhinoceros hornbills, with horn-like structures on their beaks; and Malayan flying fox fruit bats, among the largest bats in the world, with a wingspan of up to 5 feet.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Experts link the plight of flying foxes to the globe's steadily rising temperature.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
• While the virus can infect different animals, the main reservoir appears to be the fruit bat (genus Pteropus), otherwise known as the flying fox.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• The Pemba flying fox, Africa’s largest fruit bat with a wingspan of 5.5 feet, found only on the remote island of Pemba off the coast of Tanzania, nearly went extinct 30 years ago.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022
• Others, like flying foxes (pictured above), are dying en masse from Australia’s record heat.
  — National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In addition to apes, the facility also housed flying foxes and free-roaming birds.
  — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Related: Why are Australia’s flying foxes perishing in the heat?
  — National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2020
• Stepanian is also now using radar to study the migration patterns of Australian bats, specifically gray-headed flying foxes—one of the largest types of bat in the world, with wingspans that can reach three feet.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
• Irreverent red-faced monkeys fornicated on the temple roof and patrolled the tree’s lower branches, while hundreds of flying foxes hung like overripe fruits in the canopy.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• 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
• 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
• As Chenoweth reports, volunteers monitoring another flying fox colony in nearby Picton did not report any deaths.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024