If you’re claustrophobic or chiroptophobic (fear of bats) please skip this video or prepare to white knuckle it. Caveman Hikes is a youtube channel where a father and son team explore, you guessed it, caves. In their most recent video the pair found a rare bat nursery during their subterranean exploration of a mountainside cave. Bat nursery…fascinating but undeniably unsettling. Happy to watch from the sidelines but no way I’m taking the plunge:

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