A CAVE Full of Thousands of BATS. """""""""""

in #travelfeed7 years ago

Hi, Dear Steemers.🤗

Today i share with you all about the Bat Cave of Nepal & hope you like it.


The bat cave is located in pokhra, nepal. You can reach their by bus easily from anywhare in pokhra(and i were also prefer that way).The surrounding location of bat cave is very pleasing. This cave is the home of different species of bats mostly the fruit bats.


This cave locally known as chamer gufa. The local people are not much interested to visit that cave as they are used to seeing that bats every day or i should say every evening and night flying around their houses.

There are stairs to go inside the cave. this cave is below the ground.






When you bought entrance ticket, a torch is provided with it so you can move easily in dark cave.

The main entrance of cave is narrow but it is wide enough from inside and look like a great hall. This cave is around 150 mtr long and 25ft in height.



When you reached to the larger section of cave,you witnessed a few thousand of BATS clinging to the ceiling of a damp and slippery chamber and occasionally chirruping into the darkness.

If you have a bat fobia, this cave is not for you.







As you move farther in the cave, you will see iron railings on a high surface of cave. You must be careful to reach there because the surface area of cave is very slippery due to continueus water dropping from the roof of this limestone cave.






Along with these railings there is a narrow and very dark way for exit.
You need to be crawl there to make your way through it.



A very little information has been published on the bats species of nepal.
The taxonomic numeric of nepalies bat species reports confirmed the existence of fifty plus bat species in the country.

Economic Importance of bats in Nepal :-

1. Pollinator and seed disperser:

Fruit eating bats are very important pollinator and seed disperser of many fruits and nuts like: Papaya, Banana, Mango, Litchi, Amla, Kathar, Palm etc. They also pollinate and disperse seeds of other plants like Figs, Peepal, Kadam, Eucalyptus, Neem etc. Cynopterus and Rousettus bats are remarkably important for dispersing seeds of Rudraksa in Eastern hills of Nepal. Additionally the products from these trees are used to generate income.

2. Pest and disease controller:

Insectivorous bats are feed upon mosquitoes; sand flies,bugs etc. and not only control their population but also inhibit the outspread of diseases like Malaria, Japanese Encephalitis, Kala-azar, Dengue etc. Some Insectivorous bats feed upon moths, grasshoppers and leafhoppers as well as cockroaches and limits the economic losses to farmers. Carnivorous bats for eg. Megaderma lyra feed upon rats and limits the loss of grains during storage.

A Short List on Bat Species of Nepal With Their Scientific Name and Common Name.


Scientific nameCommon name
Pteropus giganteusIndian Flying Fox
Cynopterus sphinxGreater Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Sphaerias blanfordiBlanford's Fruit Bat
Eonycteris spelaeaDawn Bat
Rhinolophus ferrumequinumGreater Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus affinisIntermediate Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus sinicusChinese Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus pusillusLeast Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus subbadiusLittle Nepalese Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus lepidusBlyth's Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus macrotisBig-eared Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus luctusGreat Woolly Horseshoe Bat
Rhinolophus pearsoniPearson's Horseshoe Bat
Hipposideros cineraceusLeast Leaf-nosed Bat
Hipposideros armigerGreat Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat
Megaderma lyraGreater False Vampire
Myotis nipalensisNepal Myotis
Myotis muricolaNepalese Whiskered Myotis
Myotis siligorensisHimalayan Whiskered Myotis
Myotis csorbaiCsorba's Mouse-eared Myotis
Barbastella leucomelasEastern Barbastelle
Scotophilus heathiiGreater Asiatic Yellow House Bat
Scotophilus kuhliLesser Asiatic Yellow House Bat
Murina aurataTibetan Tube-nosed Bat
Nyctalus montanusMountain Noctule





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I wonder what the smell was like!

😁 you will not like the smell.

ohoo nooo ...... this is called unity .... it least birds have ....

Yeah right, a huge number of bats live together,
and they are from different species.

Bats scare me! uff and more if there are many.

Bats also scared 'brucewayne' 😊 but he became the 'batman'.(lol).
Bats have an importent role in our ecosystem. They are not dangerous but helpful.

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