From David Hurburgh
Despite their famous navigational skills, the grey-headed flying foxes (or fruit bats) which illustrated your article seem to have gone astray (29 October, p 36). You had their photo captioned “…difficult neighbours in the [Royal] Botanic Gardens of Melbourne”. Sydney-siders could be forgiven for going batty when they see their city’s prominent Centrepoint tower looming high in the background.
Of more importance, and pertinent to your article, is the claim that “in 2003, 30,000 of these bats set up camp in the gardens’ trees”. They are certainly not there now: the Victorian government’s Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) has relocated the bat colony.
North Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
