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There was a real contrast between the serenity of the monastery and the chaos of the bats and cormorants in the nearby trees.
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The bats were incredibly noisy
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We spent several hours at this site, which gave us a good chance to observe fruit bats behaviour and get peed on.
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They spent all day squabbling, dominant animals tok the high roosting places near the trunks of trees displacing lesser animals to the ends of branches
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This had a knock on effect as the displacedd bats then wnet and took some one else's roosting place
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In between all this there was also a certain amount of courtship and sexual behaviour. Noe the alarming proximity of a large wasps nest
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The bats shared their roosts with equally noisy cormorants
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We spotted these rather impressive ants on a pile of leaves