African Straw-colored Fruit Bat in Kasanka National Park

Eidolon helvum

Chance of an encounter
Very likely

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Kasanka National Park, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.

Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.

When it has been recorded here

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Records exist for November and December, with the widest coverage in November. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.

The evidence here

Grid cells
4
Records
32
Cell size
25 km
Years covered
2006 to 2023

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 4 squares of 25 km carry records for African Straw-colored Fruit Bat in and around Kasanka National Park, and the 32 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.

About the African Straw-colored Fruit Bat

Mikumi National Park is the atlas place where the African Straw-colored Fruit Bat is recorded, with records gathering most thickly in Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Kenya and Benin. The atlas holds 237 open records of this mammal from 23 countries.

Of the 2 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Kasanka National Park, the African Straw-colored Fruit Bat is the most recorded.

The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded