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Achi news desk-
Scientists from Stirling have warned of the risk of new pandemics after they discovered chimpanzees eating bat droppings contaminated with a type of coronavirus. The study led by the University of Stirling in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Madison was prompted when the animal behavior researcher, Dr Pawel Fedurek, saw wild chimpanzees eating bat droppings – known as “guano” – from tree hollows in the Budongo Forest in Uganda.