For many in Congo and elsewhere in Central and West Africa, eating wild meat is a key part of the culture, but it can spread zoonotic diseases.

According to the CDC, Ebola cases in Africa have been associated with hunting, butchering and processing meat from infected animals.

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Honduran white bats are some of the cutest and most unusual mammals on Earth, looking less like real animals and more like tiny floating marshmallows with glowing orange faces . Found in the ...

Each night around sunset, in one of the most upscale parts of the city, the bats get ready to fly. They’re Mexican free-tailed bats, a small species found up and down North, Central and South America.