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Sydneysiders must be looking nervously at their trees about now. Their city’s Royal Botanic Gardens has had enough of the unwanted guests in its arboretum – a colony of 22,000 flying foxes.
The fruit bats, whose furry bodies really are as big as foxes’, and which have wingspans to match, are squatting in one of the city’s most popular tourist spots. Four million people visit the 30-hectare garden each year to see 11,000 plants.
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