Move over, flamingos. There is a new misunderstood superstar in the Mumbai wilderness, and it’s time to meet them face-to-face.  While most of us spend our weekends tracking the movements of birds or trekking along the well-trodden paths of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, a new nature experience has emerged right above our heads. You can now go on a bat walk in the city’s caves. It’s an eye-opening, nocturnal expedition led by handful of Maharashtra’s bat scientists, Rajkumar Patel.

If you are thinking of pointy teeth and spooky Victorian tropes, wipe the slate clean. “Bats are truly fascinating,” says Masira Shaikh, program curator for Naturalist Explorers. “They are the only flying mammal. They are also one of the only land animals that know how to do echolocation. And they are super, super diverse.”