Over the last decades of the Anthropocene, the role of wild animals and their ecosystems in the emergence and expansion of infectious diseases has public health's attention. Bats are especially important as they have been potentially related to the current evere cute espiratory yndrome oronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the previous emergence of Middle East espiratory yndrome oronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012, and the SARS-CoV epidemic in 2002 (Ahmad et al., 2020; Biscayart et al., 2020; Bonilla-Aldana et al., 2020a; Gutiérrez et al., 2020; Tiwari et al., 2020; Bonilla-Aldana et al., 2020b).
