Fed Chair Faces Scrutiny — and Bats — at Major Policy Speech in Mountain Forum

A colony of bats recently took up residence at the storied Jackson Lake Lodge, where central bankers and economic policymakers will convene next week for an exclusive gathering.

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Spend an Hour in the Dark With Bats, Cats and Naked Mole Rats

The Bronx Zoo has reopened its World of Darkness exhibit after a 16-year hiatus.

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Genetic Study Retraces Covid’s Origins in Bats

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.

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Unknown Deadly Illness Strikes Western Congo

The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and Marburg have been ruled out.

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2 Deaths in New York Linked to Bat Feces Used as Cannabis Fertilizer

Two men in Rochester, N.Y., died after being infected with a rare fungus found in bat feces, which is sometimes used as fertilizer, researchers wrote in a medical journal.

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