Scientists studying bats in a Ugandan national park captured rare footage showing predators like snakes and birds feasting on fruit bats—animals known to carry viruses that can jump to humans. The video provides a real-world glimpse into how diseases might spread between species through the food chain.

Editor’s Note: Bats are infamous for harboring viruses like Ebola and Marburg, but we still don’t fully understand how those pathogens move into other animals (or us). This footage offers a possible answer: predators eating infected bats could act as bridges, passing viruses along. It’s a small but important piece of the pandemic puzzle.