The sky blazed orange as the Sun sank beneath the horizon. Screeching cries echoed across the savannah as shadowy tree silhouettes began to shudder. Millions of fruit bats hanging from their roosts started to wake. They covered the drooping branches, forcing many to cling to the bodies of their neighbors for space. Dusk fell, and the air filled with the rushing sound of millions of wings as clouds of flying mammals covered the sky in search of a nighttime feast.
Massive Migration
Africa’s wildlife is famous around the world. In the Great Migration, up to two million wildebeests, antelope, and zebras stampede across Tanzania into Kenya. But the largest annual wildlife migration doesn’t take place on land. Instead, it happens in the sky. There, 10 million African straw-colored fruit bats fly more