Chillers In The Mist: Council Moves To Save Frying Foxes

A COLONY of flying foxes won't become frying foxes this summer as Fairfield Council moves to make sure they keep their cool by bathing them in a regular spray of mist. More than 3000 flying foxes a third of the Cabramatta Creek colony's population died of heat stress in soaring January temperatures last summer after a plague of white ibises destroyed their habitat and the vegetation in which they shelter.