Michael Hutchinson / Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), in flower, cultivated specimen in botanic garden, native to Sumatra. Kew Gardens, London, UK. 23 April 2016 This species has the largest unbranched flower inflores...

Michael Hutchinson / Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), in flower, cultivated specimen in botanic garden, native to Sumatra. Kew Gardens, London, UK. 23 April 2016 This species has the largest unbranched flower inflores...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) hang in a tree with one coming in to land. Yarra Bend Park. Kew, Victoria, Australia. November.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. November.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) hang from a branch during a light summer rain shower. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. November.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying during a very light rain shower with her baby / pup hanging on. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. November.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying during a very light rain shower. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. November.

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. October.

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. October.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) that has just given birth, eats the placenta. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. October.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) that has just given birth, eats the placenta. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. October.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) female that has just given birth licking clean her new born. Placenta visible. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. October.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying .??Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. ?January.

Doug Gimesy / Bat rescuer, carer and founder of Fly-by-night bat clinic, Tamsyn Hogarth, comforts a young rescued Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) that has just been rescued during a heat-stress even...

Doug Gimesy / Bat rescuer, carer and founder of Fly-by-night bat clinic, Tamsyn Hogarth, comforts a young rescued Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) that has just been rescued during a heat-stress even...

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a young pup Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) with piebaldism (a rare genetic condition, typically present at birth, in which an animal develops unpigmented) hangs from a tre...

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a young pup Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) with piebaldism (a rare genetic condition, typically present at birth, in which an animal develops unpigmented) hangs from a tre...

Doug Gimesy / Volunteer bat rescuer Tracy Cleaves, spraying water t to cool down some Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) that have descended from the safety of higher branches, in an attempt to escap...

Doug Gimesy / Park Ranger and Grey-headed Flying-fox Project Officer Stephen Brend on his way to get more supplies and coordinate rescue attempts, walks past a wheelbarrow filled with dead Grey-headed Flying-foxes...

Doug Gimesy / Firefighter from Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MBF) try and help cool down the Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony by spraying water on them. Park Ranger and Gre...

Doug Gimesy / Firefighter from Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MBF) try and help cool down the Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony by spraying water on them. Park Ranger and...

Doug Gimesy / Firefighters from Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MBF) try and help cool down Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony by spraying water on them. Pa...

Doug Gimesy / 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...

Doug Gimesy / Sprinkler system set up high in the trees at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony in an attempt to try and keep them cool during an extreme heat event whe...

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch with wings wrapped around body to help keep dry during a summer rain shower. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Austra...

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch with wings wrapped around body to help keep dry during a summer rain shower. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Austr...

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch with wings wrapped around body to help keep dry during a summer rain shower. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Austra...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. December. Cropped.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight flares wings coming in to land. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. December 2019.?

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight flares wings coming in to land, during a light summer rain shower. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. December.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) female in flight with baby/pup hanging on underneath. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. December 2019.

Doug Gimesy / Trees with Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) hang in them. Yarra Bend Park. Kew, Victoria, Australia. November 2019.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) spotting and flaring wings to come in to land on a branch. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. November 2019.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) hang from a branch.?Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. November 2019.

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a male Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) coming in to land. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.? November 2019.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying just before sunset. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) asleep hanging from a branch at a colony next to the Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) female carrying her pup whilst in flight, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. December.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) just after having taken a flying high speed belly-dip into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. Crop...

Doug Gimesy / A male Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. March, 2019. Cropped.

Doug Gimesy / Silhouette of the head of a Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) through its wings. On hot days when resting in trees, flying-foxes will spread their highly vascular wings, thereby allowing...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging dead in tree having succumbed to heat stress (like hundreds of others) on a very hot summer Melbourne day. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Austr...

Doug Gimesy / Wildlife rescuers examine the remains of a dead Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) that was recovered in the field during a heat stress event at the Melbourne colony that day. Yarra Ben...

Doug Gimesy / Silhouette of the head of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) through its wings. On hot days when resting in trees, flying-foxes will spread their highly vascular wings, thereby allowing...

Doug Gimesy / Rescued Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) named Olive is released back into his Melbourne colony by wildlife carer Treycee Baker. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. Editorial...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) carrying her pup attached to a teat. Yarra Bend Park . Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Rescued Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) is released back into his Melbourne colony by wildlife carer Francois Malherbe. The bat was rescued several months earlier as a result of enta...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying just before sunset. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed fying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) fly out over Melbourne city skyline looking for food during a summers sunset. Kew, Victoria, Australia. March 2017.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging suspended in a tree, dead, having succumbed to heat stress (like hundreds of others) on a very hot summer day. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria,...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight above Bellbird picnic ground having just been released after weeks of home care. It was brought into care after it had become entangled in ina...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying just before sunset. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Head and wing of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) backlit as it hangs from a branch.Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. Cropped.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight, taking a flying high speed 'belly-dip' into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which both...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight, taking a flying high speed 'belly-dip' into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which both...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight, taking a flying high speed 'belly-dip' into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which both...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony in trees, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight just after a belly-dip into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which both acts as a form of evaporati...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) male flying and dripping water off his body, have just belly-dipped into the water to cool off and get a drink. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australi...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) at a colony hang together on a branch over the Yarra River (Melbourne). These bats form part of a colony that was established here in early 2000'...

Doug Gimesy / Rescued Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) recovers in a cage in the shade, having been rescued a few minute earlier by wildlife carers during a heat stress event day at the Melbourne col...

Doug Gimesy / A Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight just after having taken a flying high speed belly-dip into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) male flying. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. Cropped.

Doug Gimesy / Wildlife bat rescuers Megan Davidson gives a rescued Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) oral liquids to try and rehydrate it. This was one of many bats rescued at the Melbourne colony dur...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) at a colony hang together at sunset on a branch over the Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Silhouette of the head of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) through its wings. On hot days when resting in trees, flying-foxes will spread their highly vascular wings, thereby allowing...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch with her young under her wings at a colony next to the Yarra River, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a Eucalyptus tree using its wings to keep warm and protect its self from the rain. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Wildlife rescuers and Parks Victoria officer, Stephen Brend (top right) examine the remains of a dead Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) that was recovered in the field during a heat st...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) released back into his Melbourne colony by wildlife carer Francois Malherbe. The bat was rescued several months earlier, found hanging low in a fruit tr...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Parks Victoria officer Stephen Brend holds just some of the dead Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) that were the result of a heat stress event at the Melbourne colony that day. Yarra B...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging in trees at a colony next to the Yarra River, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hangs from a branch in flight, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Two Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch using their wings to keep warm and protect its self from the rain during a summer shower. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Au...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) flying just before sunset. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hangs from a branch at a colony next to the Yarra River, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hangs from one foot from a branch. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. December, 2017.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hangs from a branch scratching its head. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) fly around their roosting site. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. February, 2017

Doug Gimesy / Volunteer wildlife career (Olwyn Jones) uses water to try and cool down some Grey-headed Flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) at the Melbourne flying-fox colony during a heat stress event day. Yarra...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch and cleaning wings by licking them at a colony next to the Yarra River, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch with one wing spread, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch using its wings to keep warm and protect its self from the rain during a summer shower. Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Heather Angel / Mauritian bloody bellflower (Nesocodon mauritianus), female phase with red nectar at base of style. Cultivated at Kew Gardens, London, England, UK. Native to Mauritius.

Heather Angel / Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) carpeting Conservation Area, Kew Gardens, London, UK. May.

Heather Angel / Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) at Kew Gardens, London, UK. Emits odour at night to attract carrion beetle and flesh fly pollinators. Native to Sumatra, Indonesia.

Heather Angel / Hairy banana (Musa velutina) flowering in glasshouse, Kew Gardens, London, UK. Native to Himalayas.

Heather Angel / Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) feeding on sweet petals of nectarless Feijoa (Acca sellowiana). Kew Gardens, London, England, UK. July.

Heather Angel / Mandrinette (Hibiscus fragilis), cultivated in breeding program at Kew Gardens, London, UK. Endemic to Mauritius.

Heather Angel / Pygmy Rwandan water lily (Nymphaea thermarum) in cultivation at Kew Gardens, London, England, UK. Extinct in the wild. Native to thermal springs, Rwanda.

Heather Angel / Santa Cruz water lily (Victoria cruziana) flower reflected in pond. Fragrant scent attracts beetle pollinators. In cultivation at Kew Gardens, London, England, UK. Native to South America.

Heather Angel / St Helena ebony / Dwarf ebony (Trochetiopsis ebenus) with secondary pollen presentation on petal rims. In cultivation, Kew Gardens, London, England, UK. Endemic to St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean.

Heather Angel / Bloody bellflower (Nesocodon mauritianus), female phase with red nectar surrounding stigma. Native to Mauritius. Cultivated at Kew Gardens, London, England, UK.

Heather Angel / Mysore clock vine (Thunbergia mysorensis) with nectar overflowing in morning. In cultivation, Kew Gardens, London, England, UK. Native to India.

Heather Angel / Hedgehog-shaped lip bulbophyllum (Bulbophyllum echinolabium), Cultivated in glasshouse, Kew Gardens, London, England, UK. Native to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Controlled conditions.