Bats!

What is bat soup? (A followup on the previous piece.)

Bat soup is reported to be a popular dish particularly in Wuhan, where the virus is understood to have originated at an open air fish market.

Grim pictures of a bat with its cooked insides floating around a broth have begun circulating as many people have now been confirmed dead from the virus.

In some of the images, the bats - still with fur and body parts intact - looks frozen in pain as diners scoop it up on a spoon.

In one video a girl puts the creature whole in her mouth with chopsticks.

Some recipes don't include the whole bat, but the soup is made of a broth that comes from boiling down the bats in a pot.

The bats are then skinned and their meat and insides added to the broth. Sun.