Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track origin of COVID-19
Stung Treng, CambodiaReuters Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago. Two samples from horseshoe bats were collected in 2010 in Stung Treng province near Laos and kept in […]
Rescuer opens home to baby flying foxes orphaned by Australian bushfires
Bomaderry, AustraliaReuters Janine Davies lifts out a three-week-old baby flying fox from its makeshift home of a towel draped over a rack in her bathroom and gently feeds it milk using a tiny bottle. Like any mother of a newborn, Davies is running on little sleep as she cares for around 50 grey-headed flying foxes […]