I couldn’t be more in agreement.
It is extremely dangerous. I always tell the story of a huge Moose I saw up in Maine some years back, and there was a tourist who walked right up to it just about five feet away (we were on a bus to take us to a drop-off point for white water rafting)
Then you see the tourists walking up to Bison out west in Yellowstone, I think...
In both cases, those people could have become grease spots. But thankfully, didn’t.
I love birds, and interact with them when I can...but birds aren’t going to kill me. Anything larger than a chipmunk I give space to. Squirrels I am kind of on the fence with, and anything more than that I keep a respectful distance.
Squirrel stew is good.
More than bats, birds are coronavirus reservoirs that migrate thousands of miles. That's probably how deer are getting Wuhan, and how some people catch a flu with no known carrier contact.
Now that we have software defined antigen generators and antibody clone factories, virologists should get busy attacking viruses in nature, especially in China where starving socialists eat everything.