actions about the spread of diseases where animals can play a role some research suggests african fruit bats carry and transmit viruses that can be dangerous to humans like the one that causes sars but not much as known about their lives researchers have caught some specimens and equip them with transmitters which should reveal their movements where might the bats come into contact with dangerous pathogens and where does their range overlap with that of humans. fitting more and more bats with transmitters should make it possible to develop a map for tracking bat movement in a number of countries across africa. and then there are goats these live on the slopes of mount etna and intermittently active volcano on the island of sicily. i think. just since antiquity we've had the idea that animals sense natural disasters