Did you know that bats are the only mammals capable of true flight? Everything else simply glides, but bats can sustain themselves in the air. When you live in a tropical country plagued by disease-vectoring mosquitoes, you learn to appreciate these creatures. When my sister, Rachel, was little, she named every bat she saw Timothy and shouted encouragement to them in their hunt.
The bats in the above video stream out of a cave in the bluffs every night. We took a banka along the Pinacanauan River in the Cagayan Valley to our favorite swimming spot, then waited for the bats to make their appearance at dusk.
Wow! Great work, Naomi! I feel like this should be on a nature show.
ReplyDelete~Jessica