In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a bat. But this is no ordinary bat colony. The thousands of Egyptian fruit ...
What links the leopard; the blue monkey; and the scavenging crown eagle? They have all been captured on video 1 interacting with Marburg virus-carrying Egyptian fruit bats at the mouth of Uganda’s ...
SCHOOL groups and tourists are visiting a cave with bats that carry Marburg virus, previously flagged as having pandemic potential. “Python Cave”, in western Uganda, is home to tens of thousands of ...
Discovery of many predators feeding on bats may be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for understanding how diseases spread between animals, researchers hope Arthur Scott-Geddes Deputy Editor, Global Health Security ...