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Summary: Sarah Olson is a primatologist who has lately been studying hammer-headed fruit bats to understand how Ebola is transmitted to apes and also humans — research which could potentially control or prevent outbreaks of the deadly disease, like the current one in the Democratic Republic of Congo — beside revealing new details on the life of this fascinating species. Plus we round up the top environmental news, so if you like what you hear, please subscribe and tell a friend.