COVID-19 and threats to bats

• Published in: FACETS
• Main Authors: M. Brock Fenton, Samira Mubareka, Susan M. Tsang, Nancy B. Simmons, Daniel J. Becker
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2020
• Subjects: covid-19; bats; envir; geo; Wilkinson; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0028; https://doaj.org/article/6299aaa254de4d9a960d7e0a8bedffd3

Bats are very diverse, including over 1400 species (Simmons and Cirranello 2020), meaning that one in every five living mammal species is a bat. These remarkable animals include species living on every continent except Antarctica. Many of them perform essential ecosystem services including consuming...