Grey headed Flying Foxes came be found in Northern Australia and southeast Asian islands, thought their population is declining due to the clearing of forests. They tend to live anywhere from urban areas to swamps.
An animal the size of the Blue Ring Octopus, no matter how deadly, does not reach meals much bigger than it’s self. (unless it’s a snake link to a snake eating something much bigger than it) The Blue Ring Octopus eats shrimp, crabs, and small injured fish.
Females give birth to the single baby each year. It clings on tightly to the mother’s fur and is carried everywhere during its first month. After that, it is left in the roost at night while the mother flies to the feeding sites. Teen bats stay with their mothers till they learn how to fly at two months and are fully independent after a further month.
Now here’s the part where I tell you why a shy herbivore is on this list of Australia’s deadliest animal list.
These bats are actually an outlier in this list because they have not adapted ways of killing humans. The reasons they are so deadly to humans is because of the diseases they carry.
And the first is the lyssavirus virus. This virus is specifically the Australian bat lyssavirus. It is similar to rabies, but not exactly the same. The early symptoms are flu-like but then quickly escalates to paralysis, delirium, convulsions before worse resulting in death in a week or two.
The second is the hendra virus which scientists are not even such humans can be infected with, but hey better safe than very very sorry.
The symptoms that have occurred in the horses which have contracted it from the bats is fever which rapidly escalated to deterioration of the respiratory and nervous systems.
This is the least deadly animal on this list because there very few deaths caused from the Flying Foxes. The furtherest it gets is infecting horses, however these diseases are very deadly and the animals must be treated very carefully because of this. These diseases are only spread through direct contact with the bat such as biting or scratching. This is why only professionals who know what they are doing and have been vaccinated should handle the bats.