Friday, July 26, 2013

8 million bat migration from Kanasa Park African Republic of Zambia


8 million bat migration from Kanasa Park African Republic of Zambia

It's hard to see the sky amid a scene repeated only once a year, and this scene appears when you fly more than 8 million bat in one of the largest migrations of mammals in Africa and also the most exciting.


Did not find a bat fruit that reaches over the wings to 6 feet of any meters and eighty centimeters, but to live on a patch of land small an area of ​​about 4050 square meters in a small corner of the park, "Kanasa" national, after the return of the bat to her home after caught daily, carrying every treeup to 10 tons of bats, making the area one of the most densely crowded warm-blooded mammals in the world.


This has been found "Lucas" that bats leave her home in the tops of the trees when the sun to come back with the dawn to sleep. He believes that the number of bats that are involved in the migration is more than the number of bulls and zebras African collected. It is worth mentioning that this kind of color bat like a straw, a subspecies of "fruit bat" found in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The large amount of fruit that feed on these organisms allow them access to the weight of 311 grams. And live for about 30 years.


















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