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Features of Natural Interest

These caves are extremely important for bats. The cave ecosystems have not been studied extensively, but studies done have discovered endemic invertebrates.

Looking up at buffy flower bats roosting in a limestone chimney, created over thousands of years by water dissolving the rock.


© Dr Mike Pienkowski
(Features of Natural Interest, 9 of 17 - Slide ref. 359)