Why the Bat flies at Night 8 Nov, 2015 in Narrative / Adventure / Africa / Western Africa by Frans Timmermans Once upon a time, in the distant past, there was a great war between the animal s who live in the sky and those that live on the ground. Nobody now remembers how the war started or what it was about, but it was a terrible time. Many animals on both sides were wounded or killed, and eventually somebody said that if they carried on like this, there would be no animals left on the earth. So some of the sky animals and some of the ground animals had a meeting, and as nobody could recall what they were fighting each other for, it was agreed that a truce should be called, and peace declared. For the sky dwellers, the heron was appointed to make the announcements, and for the ground animals, the hare would do this job, as he was able to ge...