“…During 5 years of fieldwork in north‐eastern Australia for my PhD thesis on Toxocara pteropodis , an intestinal roundworm of flying foxes, 2 which included hundreds of hours observing fruit bats in their natural habitats, not once did I come across a case of natural birth or abortion in fruit bats away from their communal roosts (“camps”), which were always within pockets of dense forest, such as mangrove, eucalyptus or melaleuca swamps. Furthermore, the three coastal fruit bat species exhibited a short, well defined birthing season, generally over 3 weeks from late October through to November.…”