
Conservation
Bats Are Not Our Enemies
The viruses they carry spill over into humans mostly when we encroach on their territory or drag them into ours—and bats do great good as well
Ricardo Rocha, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Porto, in Portugal.
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