Stopping the Next Coronavirus Pandemic Starts With These Bats

The next coronavirus pandemic is out there in nature, right now, as you’re reading this words. It lives within bats. But bats are not the enemy. They are hugely important animals. Ignorance is the enemy.

If we don’t understand these viruses — and there are many of them — we are doomed to repeat history. We will almost certainly experience another coronavirus pandemic, maybe within our lifetimes. Let’s not be ignorant.

Rufous horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus rouxii). Photo by Aditya Joshi. Image...