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Some evenings, the landscape does the talking.

The camera points toward a cave opening on a rocky hillside as a dense stream of bats begins to pour out.

The filmer, Sam, told WooGlobe, “There are roughly 6 million bats that leave the cave.”

The flow thickens into a continuous ribbon of moving silhouettes, spreading across the sky as they fly away from the entrance.

The scale turns a familiar wildlife moment into something that reads like weather.

The scene settles into a steady, unbroken migration as the light fades.
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00:00I'm currently in Battambang in Cambodia, and see that cave there?
00:04Millions and millions of bats fly out of that every day, 365 days a year, and I've come to watch
00:09it.
00:10We have, it's 17.44, we have about 15 minutes before they all come flying out after sunset.
00:17It's 17.54, and we've seen about five bats that have just come out and then gone back in again.
00:22It's 18.03, still no sign of the bats, but they are coming, and you're going to see them.
00:27It's 18.08, so it's 6.08, and it's definitely about to start.
00:33We've seen about 40 bats come out, you can just see them flying around.
00:42You see them?
00:43Yeah.
00:44Oh my God.
00:58Wow.
01:05Wow.
01:08That is insane.
01:09Let's go.
01:41There's just millions of them.
01:45Wow.
01:46It's 18.14 to 6.14 and we are still going.
02:12I don't know if this is ever going to stop.
02:14It's crazy.
02:15I've come right underneath them now.
02:17This is actually, when you think about how many bats have come out of this cave, it's
02:22been going for, we're at 18.17 and they are still coming strong out of this cave.
02:29It just doesn't make sense how many millions of bats must be in here, in this cave.
02:38It's just, it's actually creepy when you look at that.
02:44Wow.
02:48Right, I do not care what anybody says.
02:51If you are in Cambodia, bat and bang should be on your list to come and see that.
02:55It's one of the best things I've ever seen in my life.
02:586 million or 10 million or whatever.
03:00It felt like they were going on forever.
03:01It felt like there was millions and millions of bats coming out of that cave and it was
03:05sick.
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