Brave juvis take on a scary branch

To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@ The world can be a scary place for us all sometimes but when you are a hand raised juvenile flying-fox without the benefit of a mothers experience to teach you, it is important that you encounter as many new experiences possible before being released to the wild. With this in mind, we provide ropes to enhance both horizontal and vertical climbing skills, hanging kebabs of fruit to encourage foraging behaviour and we also introduce fresh browse to help prepare our orphans for a life in the trees. Flying-foxes are insatiably curious but with that curiosity comes a degree of caution that can be seen in the following video. Big extended wings indicate uncertainty together with a healthy dose of suspicion and they may even help to convince a potential predator that attacking prey with such large scary wings may not be a good idea. Either way it’s interesting behaviour to watch and it’s all part of