Readers of the
Bangor Daily News, some experts and people commenting all had an opinion on what the hell that thing caught on a trail camera was. Here is the original story that started it all.
Norman Tremblay, up in Lowell in Penobscot County, caught this
thing on his Christmas gift camera. He thought it was a fisher, most said it was a beaver but the experts finally came to the conclusion that it s a very wet
porcupine!
The
BDNwas not fooling around here. They did some serious investigative reporting and got Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife biologists Shevenell Webb, Keel Kemper and Bob Cordes and longtime trapper Bob Noonan to fight it out.
Researchers wonder: Can humans transmit COVID to bats?
Four Maine wildlife rehabilitators are participating in a Tufts University study examining the possibilities of human-to-animal transmission of COVID-19.
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A big brown bat, which is used an ambassador at the Center for Wildlife in York because it has permanent injuries, is one of the bats from the center used in the Tufts study.
Photo courtesy of the Center for Wildlife
Many scientists believe the coronavirus pandemic originated with a bat in China. But in a twist, biologists in Maine and New England are more concerned about bats contracting the virus from humans.