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

The Independent on Sunday | November 23, 2003| | Copyright

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 the world.

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