Thanks Red Badger. Frying foxes ping.
The animal lovers trying to save them don’t live near enough to them to experience the down-side:
Living with Fruit Bats:
In recent years the state government has given the local councils the ability to decide for themselves if it make sense to try to move bat colonies as residents complain.
Many communities are tired of homes and cars being covered with bat faeces, of the noise and the smell.
Councils have tried to move them, with mixed success.
On the Gold Coast, residents have used air horns to shift bats and suggested the Gold Coast City Council cull some of the 200,000 bats remaining in the city.
Charter Towers used car horns and helicopters in December 2013 to shift 80,000 bats, but by November 2014, Townsville was complaining their “bat plague” was Charters Towers’ bats.
“It is easy to disperse bats,” Ms Wimberley said.
“But you don’t know where they are going to go.
“They are going to go into someone’s backyard and it is going to be someone else’s problem.”