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Eyes Stabbed By The Flash Light
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
These are Eastern Horseshoe Bat. Shown in there natural habitat - i.e. a cave. Caves are pretty abundant in the forests of Bandhavgarh. This cave is the biggest one in those terrain named BaRi Gufa - meaning large cave. My friend and myself were shooting the cave we had to adjust the flash power to get right exposure. The small height of the ceiling provided a means for the bounce/fill flash that is usually unavailable in prosumer/Sp models.
A detailed description of the place is on this page
Family: Rhinolophidae
Scientific name: Rhinolophus megaphyllus
Where they roost:
In warm, humid caves, holes and cracks in rocks, old mines and tunnels and occasionally under buildings. Up to 50 bats roost together in a colony, hanging free from the ceiling.
What they eat:
They hunt flying and non-flying insects and spiders. They fly close to the ground or foliage to catch their prey, then carry them to special feeding roosts to eat.
Conservation threats:
Vulnerable to disturbance from human visitors to cave roosts, destruction of cave roost sites by mining, and loss of feeding habitat by forestry operations, and clearing for agriculture and housing.
Other information:
Distinguished by the horseshoe-shaped fleshy area around their nose. They are disturbed when people enter their caves, especially in the breeding season when they may abandon their young. They hibernate durring cold. |
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Nice shot. The bat in the front with its outstretched wings and its shadow behind it looks spooky.
Ciao!
Woow! Great capture!
I like it!
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