Bat Man of Borneo | Expedition Raw

our goals to investigate the
interactions between the bats and the
geology of the cave itself so wherever
the bats choose to go we follow you
climbing up a slope of guano that’s 17
feet high you sink up to mid-shin it’s
like walking up steep snow one of our
team members did slip on guano and break
a bone in Iran in some cases we are
wearing masks in their roosts because
there are health concerns associated
with various bat borne diseases that
range from rabies at one end to other
tropical viruses they’re much less
studied it’s quite serious and could
certainly be contracted in some of these
games and that’s urinate when they take
flight so there’s a great deal of
ammonia gas in the atmosphere and that
can be quite damaging to the lungs
that’s what bump into you and land on
you crawl up and fly off again and so on
so but that’s part of the experience
can’t get closer to these animals and
having an crawling on you and doesn’t
cause them any harm doesn’t cause us any
harm
it’s just a cool experience