Although the Great Migration of wildebeest across the Maasai Mara-Serengeti ecosystem in East Africa is often cited as the world’s largest mammal migration, this crown actually belongs to a lesser-known migration of bats in Zambia.
Every year between October and December, over 10 million straw-coloured fruit bats migrate from all over equatorial Africa to the Mushitu Forest in Zambia’s Kasanka National Park. The bats roost in a two-hectare area of the forest every day, coming out to feed on the region’s fruiting trees at dusk. The migration was only discovered in 1980.
Mwaba Mwila Adventures captured this remarkable natural spectacle on film, showcasing the dense swarms of bats filling the skies above Kasanka.
Watch the video here:
