Skip to main content
punctum books

Flying Foxes in Sydney

  • Deborah Bird Rose (author)
Chapter of: Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene(pp. 83–89)

Export Metadata

  • ONIX 3.1
    Cannot generate record: No publications supplied
  • ONIX 3.0
    • Thoth
      Cannot generate record: No publications supplied
    • Project MUSE
      Cannot generate record: No BIC or BISAC subject code
    • OAPEN
      Cannot generate record: Missing PDF URL
    • JSTOR
      Cannot generate record: No BISAC subject code
    • Google Books
      Cannot generate record: No BIC, BISAC or LCC subject code
    • OverDrive
      Cannot generate record: No priced EPUB or PDF URL
  • ONIX 2.1
    • EBSCO Host
      Cannot generate record: No PDF or EPUB URL
    • ProQuest Ebrary
      Cannot generate record: No PDF or EPUB URL
  • CSV
  • JSON
  • OCLC KBART
  • BibTeX
  • CrossRef DOI deposit
    Cannot generate record: This work does not have any ISBNs
  • MARC 21 Record
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
  • MARC 21 Markup
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
  • MARC 21 XML
    Cannot generate record: MARC records are not available for chapters
Metadata
TitleFlying Foxes in Sydney
ContributorDeborah Bird Rose (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0100.1.16
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/manifesto-for-living-in-the-anthropocene/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightRose, Deborah Bird
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2015-04-14
Long abstractDo city dwellers dream of wide open spaces like rangelands, or do they dream of tall buildings? Do their dreams entice them to look up into the great, blue depths above them, and do flying foxes flit across the night sky of their sleep? Do they ever think: “now, this is a biodiver-city!”?At least one city dweller, journalist James Woodford, looked up with delight. He wrote: “watching bats silhouetted against the stars is one of the greatest, but little known, pleasures of life” (Woodford 2003). Actually, many city dwellers find pleasure in the fact that their city and their lives are shared with flying foxes. Every night around sunset the flying foxes start their nightly flyout. With their dark fur, their wingspans of up to one meter, and their distinctive bat silhouette, they stand out against the clear colors of an Aus-tralian sunset. They are beautiful wherever they are, but in Sydney, Australia’s largest and most iconic city, they are fan-tastic! They span out across the Opera House, and over the Harbour Bridge. One can sit at Circular Quay, sipping a drink and watching the ferries, the bridge, and the lights of Luna Park flashing across the harbor. Then the motion above begins. The gaze that has been fixed horizontally shifts up-ward to the blizzard of flying foxes, and one feels quite close
Page rangepp. 83–89
Print length7 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)