Cargo of ‘Cooked Bats’ Seized After German Police Pull Over Uninsured Migrant Truck Driver
German officials seized cooked bats and nearly a ton of unrefrigerated fish after police stopped a van near the border.
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Study: ‘Climate Change’ May Lead to 15,000 Cases of Mammal-to-Mammal Virus Transmission
A study in the journal Nature claims that so-called climate change may cause animal to human virus transmission.
China Denies WHO Access to Bat Caves in Enshi West of Wuhan
China has refused to grant the World Health Organization (WHO) access to bat caves and wildlife farming west of Wuhan, where the virus originated, in the Hubei province.
Video: Protesters Allegedly Get Shipment of Bats Prior to Brooklyn Bridge Altercation
Protesters reportedly got a shipment of bats before anti-police activists clashed with officers on the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday.
China Announces Plan to Build More Virus Labs
Chinese state media on Tuesday announced Beijing has taken first steps in a much-touted program to build more high-level laboratories to study dangerous infectious diseases.
India Appears to Take Jab at China with ‘Bat’ Reference in Army Video
The Indian Army posted a video to social media over the weekend honoring the 20 Indian soldiers attacked and killed last week by Chinese border troops in the western Himalayas. The video appears to deliberately insult China with a reference to “bats,” the Times of India (TOI) reported on Monday.
U.S. Mint Selling 2020 Quarter Featuring Fruit Bats amid Coronavirus Pandemic
The United States Mint is selling a limited-run of collectible quarters featuring fruit bats in honor of the National Park of American Samoa during the coronavirus pandemic.
Scientist: Coronavirus ‘Not Airborne’ but ‘Extremely Contagious’
An Australian virologist who has isolated the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 infection says the virus is “not airborne,” though it is “extremely contagious.”
Bats Have Regional Accents, Israeli Study Shows
MIAMI — Baby bats learn language from peers in their colony, and will adopt the group’s dialect, or accent, instead of their mother’s, Israeli researchers said Tuesday.
Study: Wind Turbines Could Make an Endangered Species of Bats Go Extinct
Wind turbines are killing off an endangered species of bat at a much faster pace than expected, according to a study from the University of California.
Zika: Aerial Spraying and Releasing Bats Approved
With Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control rapidly losing the battle to contain the epidemic from the Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, panicking authorities began aerial spraying and may soon bring in bats that can eat 1,000 mosquitoes an hour.
Wind Industry Lawyer: Brexit Could Help us Kill More Birds and Bats…
Good news for bird-haters and bat-loathers. A lawyer working for the wind industry says there may, after all, be a silver lining to the Brexit vote: apparently, once Britain is independent, we’ll be freed of all those pesky EU regulations
Rabid Blood-Sucking Bats in Peru Kill 12
Twelve indigenous children from the Achuar tribes in Peru have died of rabies after being bitten by blood-sucking bats, while several more are still battling the disease.
RIP Stefan The Stork – One Of 30 Million Birds Killed By Wind Farms Every Year
This horrible, upsetting picture shows a white stork whose beak was chopped off by a wind turbine in Germany. It subsequently had to be “euthanised” by a vet. Though I’ve given him a name – Stefan – I think we
