the world?s closest known match to the Covid-19 virus was found seven years ago by Wuhan scientists in an abandoned copper mine in Yunnan where it was linked to deaths to miners clearing bat faeces which was caused by a coronavirus-type respiratory illness - an Insight investigation in today's Sunday Times reports. The virus was taken to Wuhan for study in the Virology Institiute (WIV). Read about China's Bat Woman.

Article is here https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/seven-year-covid-trail-revealed-l5vxt7jqp not sure if it's paywalled or not

And the scientific paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2012-7

As I mentions earlier.  Do not eat bats.  According to Ozzy Osborne "They taste awful".

Curried bat is a delicacy in The Seychelles.

They were serving bat curry at the Anse Soleil Restaurant in Mahe in the Seychelles in 2012 according to Tripadvisor:

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But according to Reuters it is still popular in Indonesia in spite of the Coronavirus outbreak:

https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOVC06CNS7

Curried willow, anyone?

I had curried bat from a market in Sulawesi in Indonesia about 16yrs ago. It tasted vaguely like a beef curry and was surprisingly nice. It was not the strangest thing I ate on that trip either.