Bats: Zambia's secret weapon in the battle for safari supremacy; Forget the wildebeest, says Stephanie Debere, the world's biggest migration of animals is airborne - and it fills the skies of this pioneering national park.(Features) From: The Independent on Sunday (London, England) | Date: November 23, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Stephanie Debere

Africa-philes generally believe that when it comes to animal migrations, Kenya and Tanzania hold trump cards - but they're wrong. The annual movement of 1.8 million wildebeest between the Masai Mara and the Serengeti certainly inspires awe, but the continent's largest animal gathering occurs on a lesser stage. Each November the skies above Kasanka, a diminutive Zambian national park, darken with the arrival of between five million and 15 million, straw-coloured fruit bats from throughout central Africa - possibly the largest animal concentration in ...