Your daily science lesson that you may or may not want

Tucked in between the Adelaide Zoo and the Botanic Gardens (which are both close to our apartment), are some very tall trees.

In those trees, live about 10,000 bats. HUGE bats. To be specific, they are flying fox bats, which are the biggest species of bat.

These bats migrated to Adelaide in 2010, driven here from other states due to a drought. They wake up at night and fly, up to 30 miles, to find food. They are also known as fruit bats, because they eat mostly fruit from flowering fruit trees.

These bats have a wingspan of over 3 feet!

They mostly sleep during the day, but you can hear their 'chirps' whenever you walk by, and there are usually a few flying about, trying to find a new sleeping position in the trees. I can't believe I'm saying this, but it is really fascinating to watch them fly. From a safe distance. But the trees are really tall so they don't feel too close. That's good.