Iluka Flying Foxes Forever

"Hey Roger, what's up? You look a bit woebegone."

"I'm worried Barry. I think there's a plague and it's bad news for us flying foxes."

"Are you talking about the naked apes?"

"Yeah. I'm not prejudiced, but I reckon there's too many of them. They're everywhere. They poo in the swamp and they're really noisy. They keep my kids up all day. And talk about whinge! I don't know why they came here. The old cranky ones are the worst."

"It'd be alright if they'd spread themselves around a bit like we do. We don't lob in the one spot like they do. If we did there'd be nothing to eat. Those black ones that used to be here in the old days were okay. But the white ones, they've only been here for a few generations and they've just about buggered the place for everyone."

"Yeah, they're stinkers alright. And they carry diseases and spread pests around. I reckon some of the visitors have been bringing cane toads down from Queensland."

"They need to be culled. Whenever there are too many of us, our numbers go down. Those naked apes must have different laws to everybody else's."

"Well I'm sick of it. I'm going to write a letter to the government."

"Fat lot of good that'll do. It's stacked with one species. They'll probably side with the humans. Maybe we should leave town."

"But we're running out of places to go. This valley used to have lots of great feasting places for us flying foxes. But the naked apes cut down most of the rainforest years ago. There's only a few places left. Maybe we'll have to stay around here after all. What do you reckon?"

"Well, I saw some great fruit trees down at Kungala the other day. I was thinking of having some, but my mate told me the naked apes have got a gun."

"What for? To shoot you? Just for eating a plum?"

"Yeah! That's what they're like, you know."