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Description Just a few hundred of the two million or so wrinkle-lipped bats that leave Deer Cave in Gunung Mulu National Park on Borneo around sunset each evening. Each bat consumes around 1000 mosquitoes a night, adding up to an amazing 9 tons of mosquitoes in total - the main reason why there are so few mosquitoes in the park. The bats' spiral flightpath is an attempt to confuse bat hawks on the nearby cliffs, waiting for dinner.
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Author John Mason from Edinburgh, UK
Camera location4° 02′ 46.66″ N, 114° 46′ 23.92″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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