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A black flying fox licks the pollen off a bottlebrush flower at a wildlife rescue centre in Kuranda, Queensland. Flying foxes are keystone forest pollinators both through seed dispersal and the pollen that gets stuck to their muzzles, but locals tend to view them as pests.