Mother and Pup Fruit Bats (IMAGE)

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Mother and Pup Fruit Bats

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A mother fruit bat with her nursing pup. These fruit bats (Rousettus madagascariensis) from Ankarana in northern Madagascar are from a species that carries a form of coronavirus. The researchers have been studying the population dynamics of this species superimposed on different zoonotic diseases for seven years.

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Olivà S. Noroalintseheno Lalarivoniaina

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