Flying Fox Roosts

Papua New Guinea


You can’t miss Madang’s bats, they’re everywhere; wheeling overhead all day, constantly disturbed by the town noises below. Locals told us that these kwandi (spectacled flying foxes) moved into town in the mid-1970s.


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