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Wheelbarrow filled with just some dead Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) that were collected earlier that day, the result of an extreem heat event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox colony.
Park Ranger and Grey-headed flying-fox Project Officer Stephen Brend estimated that during this day, over 4,500 Grey-headed flying-foxes died at the Melbourne Yarra Bend colony as temperatures exceeded 43°C. 56% being infants and a significant part of the next generation. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. ?December 2019.
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