Indians cook bats to eat - wildfilmsindia campaigns to stop this practice

Arunachali tribals cook bat meat for feast as they celebrate the Bat Killing Festival in India. The Adi tribe organizes the 200-year-old “Bat Killing” festival in Arunachal. Like the previous years, hundreds of men, women and children of the community swarm into a natural cave, with bamboo poles and kill over a thousand bats as part of the festival. It is believed that the practice of killing bats once in a year helps keep the natural demographic balance of bats in the hill site. Adis feel that the festival is an occasion to bond with their fellow tribesmen. The festival has always been a source of merriment and a family reunion for them. The community bat hunting is an annual festival steeped in hundred year’s tradition. They feel it as an occasion to bond with their family men. This is that time of the year when their family men disperse at different places reunite, hunt bats and feast on bat meat. The ‘hunting festival’ is exclusively for a clan of Adis, but headman sometimes invites other tribes to be part of this bat-killing expedition. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com To SUBSCRIBE click the below link: www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=WildFilmsIndia Like & Follow Us on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/WildernessFilmsIndiaLimited Website: www.wildfilmsindia.com