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The droppings also support other types of cockroaches,
糞便也能養活其它種類的蟑螂
which spend part of their day resting on cave walls.
它們一天大部分時間都呆在洞壁上
These in turn become food for giant cave centipedes, some more than 20 centimetres long.
這些蟑螂也接連成為了洞穴大蚰蜒的美餐，有的蚰蜒能長到20厘米長。
Bizarrely, there are crabs here, too. Sifting through the droppings for nutrients.
奇怪的是，這里甚至還有螃蟹，它們從糞便中過濾營養物質。
All these animals spend their entire lives within the cave.
所有這些動物都在洞穴內度過一生
They're totally dependent on the digested remains of food that's brought in from outside.
它們完全依賴的食物消化殘渣都是來自于外界
Each evening, in just two hours, three million bats leave the safety of the cave
每天傍晚，只是前后2小時內，300萬只蝙蝠一起離開安全的洞穴。
to hunt for insects in the forest outside. But not all will return.
在森林外圍捕食昆蟲。但并非所有的蝙蝠都能返回。
As they leave the cave, the stream of bats form a doughnut-shaped ring.
蝙蝠離開山洞后，即在空中組成一個面包圈一樣的隊列。
The wheeling bats seem to confuse a rufous-bellied eagle,
旋繞的蝙蝠群似乎已將棕腹隼雕弄得暈頭轉向
but they must still survive the attacks of other, more specialised birds of prey.
但它們仍須躲過其它更專業的猛禽的攻擊。
