The mystery of ten million bats 🦇🦇🦇.

For a few weeks each year, in November and December, ten million bats gather from all over Africa to meet up in a small patch of forest in Kasanka, the size of 2 or 3 soccer fields 🤯. This makes it the largest mammal migration on earth.

Research has shown that these huge fruit bats, with a wing span up to almost one meter fly in from surrounding countries like Malawi, the DRC, and even as far as South Sudan. What is not clear however, is how these bats know when and where to migrate. And why they all flock together in such a tiny space.

As to why, the most common theory is that they come for the food, mangoes and other fruits very prevalent in the area. Each night during these few weeks the bats fly out and eat up to 3kg of fruit each. Each night.

Witnessing this many bats in the air is an experience hard to describe in words, or capture in pictures. But it is unlike anything we have ever seen before.