03-13-2020, 03:38 AM
Quote:Sara Platto, who studies animal behavior at Jianghan University in Wuhan, worries that all the speculation about pangolins being the source could drive people to kill them. Civets were killed en masse after the SARS outbreak. “The problem is not the animals, it’s that we get in contact with them,” says Platto.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00364-2
As far as i read, 3 animals are suspected being civets, bats and pangolins with the last 2 the most suspected.
Pangolins are said to be the most widely trafficked mammal in the world, is threatened with extinction. Poor pangolins..
