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PhD Opportunity: Heat Stress in Flying foxes: Behavioural Ecology and Mitigation

A fantastic PhD opportunity exists in the University of Adelaide Bat One Health Research Group for a candiate passionate about the conservation management of threatened species who loves working in the field and sometimes in challenging conditions. Do you have good analytical skills, a great sense of humour and who is a team player? This might […]

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South Australian flying foxes are exposed to zoonotic viruses

Researchers have found that South Australia’s population of Grey-headed flying foxes has been exposed to a number of viruses, including Hendra virus that can be transmitted to humans via horses. But they have not found evidence of exposure to Australian bat lyssavirus. University of Adelaide research published in PLOS ONE, details three years of research into the […]

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