I Nearly Said,

'keeping to a bird theme',

but of course these are bats, hundreds of thousands of them, that have invaded the town of Ingham, in Northern Queensland, Australia, things have gotten so bad that kids are afraid to go to school anymore, and rescue helicopters can’t land at the local hospital, now that is a seriously large number of bats for that to happen, Flying foxes, also known as fruit bats, (Pteropus poliocephalus), currently outnumber humans in Ingham by hundreds of thousands. And they’re not the only bat species that decided to make the Australian town their home over the last month. According to local sources, people here have been invaded by four different species of bats, each of which mates at different times, making it really hard for authorities to intervene. To make matters worse, the bats are protected by law, so locals can’t take matters into their own hands either, the above photograph Twitter/@chapoisat,

“It just seems to me that every bat in Australia is now in Ingham,” Raymon Jayo, Mayor of Hinchinbrook Council, told A Current Affair. “There’s four different species and because they all have young at different times, there’s hardly a window of opportunity when we can interact with these bats to try and move them on.”

while most of the locals complain about the bat invasion, comparing it with a biblical plague, animal experts warn that bats play a vital role in maintaining the natural balance, and that we as a species would be much worse off without them, “The importance of these animals is completely underrated — without these creatures out there pollinating and creating new life, we may as well pack up and walk away from our ecology,” Amanda Wright from North Queensland Wildlife Care said, and it has to be said, ago, spread coronavirus, this article published just 2 days ago, quarantine the town perhaps? as it happens like Ebola virus in Africa and the Nipah virus in Asia, the new coronavirus — 2019-nCoV — appears to have originated in bats, but in such large numbers and specie living and breeding in Ingham, what can possibly be done?