Scientists find bats migrating across Cyprus for the first time

For the first time, bats that breed in coastal caves have been observed migrating across the country to spend the winter in Troodos. During their journey from the coast to the mountains, the bats travelled an estimated 60 kilometres .

Scientists tracked three of these bats in underground tunnels in the Troodos area after equipping 100 of them with microchips in Akamas and Pomos, where they had spent the summer