期刊论文

Liu, Ying;Luo, Jinhong;Feng, Jiang

英文

Biological Conservation

0006-3207

2021

254

108952

10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108952

We thank many friends, colleagues, and university staff for their help in distributing the survey, the members of bat group of J.L. for providing valuable feedback to the surveys, and members of the bat group of J.F. for support in preparing the bat conservation lecture. We thank Merlin Tuttle for commenting on the early draft, Tigga Kingston and Mel Wohlgemuth for proofreading the manuscript. J.L. was funded by a Career Development Award from Human Frontier Science Program ( CDA00009/2019-C ) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 31970426 ). J.F. was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 31961123001 ).

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With >1 400 species, bats comprise the second-largest order of mammals and provide critical ecological services as insect consumers, pollinators, and seed dispersers. Yet, bats are frequently associated with infectious human diseases such as SARS, MERS, and Ebola. As early as the end of January 2020, several virological studies have suggested bats as a probable origin for SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. How does the public view the role of bats in COVID-19? Here we report pilot data collected shortly after the outbreak of COVID-19 using two online surveys, combined with a conserva...