Ungated Web Archive [1] of The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China. Horseshoe bats in Yunnan Province are found near the Lancang River, the northern section of the Mekong [2] in Southeast Asia.
Some horseshoe bats practice nighttime perch feeding [3] which places their guano in close proximity to the nocturnal arboreal animals [4][5][6] known to be good candidates for a natural recombinant event [7].
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[1] http://archive.is/8CRuh#selection-583.0-583.61
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat#Diet_and_foragin...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin#Behavior
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_palm_civet#Behaviour_and...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_dog
[7] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.942748v2