I did a fair amount of spelunking in my undergraduate days. While I
occasionally encountered a solitary bat, most bats that I’m familiar
with hang cheek to jowl in vast crowds. In caves, which you could fairly
describe as “inside”. To answer BW: No, not suspicious at all.
*The Sixth Extinction* by Elizabeth Colbert has a chapter about an
infection racing through bat populations in the US.
—Barry
On 19 Jul 2021, at 22:08, David Eric Smith wrote:
I remember the following to assertions from them. (Paraphrased, but
should be close):
BW: (about whether the virus was in some way manmade) “Isn’t it
suspicious that most people have infected each other inside, yet bats
live outside.”
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