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World's largest bat migration: The night Zambia's sky disappears under 10 million bats

On certain evenings in late October, the central Zambezi woodlands in northern Zambia begin to feel slightly off balance. Not visibly at first. It is more a change in pressure, as if the forest has taken in too much air and is holding it. Deep inside Kasanka National Park, branches…

The Times of India · Jun 19

World’s biggest bat colony gathers in Zambia every year: we used artificial intelligence to count them

Everybody who visits Kasanka National Park in Zambia during “bat season” agrees that the evening emergence of African straw-coloured fruit bats from their roost site is one of the wildlife wonders of the world. The bats (Eidolon helvum) arrive at Kasanka every year around October. The numbers swell rapidly until…

The Conversation · Sep 26, 2023