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Stunning bat cave footage captures disease spread risk for first time

Stunning bat cave footage captures disease spread risk for first time

Researchers were astonished to film at least 14 different species, including monitor lizards, leopards and monkeys, visiting the cave to feast on potentially disease-ridden bats.

  • by Arthur Scott-Geddes

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Bat cave footage shows disease spread risk for first time
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Bat cave footage shows disease spread risk for first time

Camera traps were set up outside Uganda's "Python Cave".

I have visited every country in the world. Here’s what hurt and what made my soul soar
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I have visited every country in the world. Here’s what hurt and what made my soul soar

Fewer than 500 people (including about 10 Australians) have had the privilege of doing this, according to a group that verifies people’s claims, including mine.

  • by Andrew MacLeod