we know their bats are diseased, carrying several sars like strains, and that villagers who live near some of the bat caves have antibodies. We also know that the chicoms give tours of some of these caves, and that bats poo on the visitors. Guangdong and Yunnan provinces among others.
I did a whole write up on it with links about 2 weeks ago, maybe three if you want to mine my posts.
but here’s a quicky from NPR:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/20/807742861/new-research-bats-harbor-hundreds-of-coronaviruses-and-spillovers-arent-rare
Re: 1827 - I think the moral of the story is - don’t visit bat caves - unless you’re doing research and dimming the appropriate PPE.
Bats are reservoir species. There’s evidence that shows that flying increases their metabolism which increases their temperature, and which may protect bats from becoming symptomatic and mortalities from the viruses they carry.
Very interesting article on bats and their carrying many different strains of corona viruses.