Hundreds of flying foxes and rainbow lorikeets have dropped from the sky suffering from a mysterious disease. The animals have been discovered across a wide area in southeast Queensland and ...

"The signs in the flying-foxes are essentially identical to those we see in the lorikeets with LPS and it is my working hypothesis that the cause of both LPS and FFPS is the same thing." ...

Flying Foxes and Lorikeets, native to Australia, are mysteriously falling from the sky and were discovered across a wide area in southeast Queensland and northern NSW this month. Some of them were ...

"Just hold out a cup of nectar, and they might land right on top of you," Ken Werner said of the 56 free-flying, multi-colored lorikeets roosting in Aquarium's outdoor aviary this summer.

A record number of lorikeets and flying foxes are being hospitalised with a mystery illness putting wildlife volunteers under strain. The animals are suffering from paralysis syndrome ...

“If it turns out that there’s some overlap between what the [sick] flying foxes and the lorikeets are feeding on, that might give us another clue into what might be causing this,” Phalen say ...