The lady who lives with 500 bats

Ruth Doherty

An animal-loving woman in India shares her home with some extraordinary lodgers - hundreds of wild bats.

Living in a small village in Rajpura, Gujarat, India, Shantaben Prajapati first started welcoming the mammals into her home over 20 years ago.

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