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 ...
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 ...
Egyptian fruit bats at Python Cave, Uganda. Bats from Python Cave caused two cases of Marburg virus disease in 2007 and 2008, one of which was fatal. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...