The others could be recent imports or may have lurked unnoticed in Australia's bats, jumping species only when people and their domestic animals began to encroach further
into bat habitat.
Not exact matches
Deforestation of the Amazon is forcing thousands of
bats from their natural
habitat and
into close contact with humans.
Like these places,
bat caves around the world have the two essential ingredients to brew up a new plague: intrusion of people
into a previously hidden
habitat and viruses circulating around.