Quammen visits the Writers Institute tomorrow, Thursday.
"Astrid Joosten was a 41-year-old Dutch woman who, in June 2008, went to Uganda with her husband. At home in Noord-Brabant, she worked as a business analyst. Both she and her husband, Jaap Taal, a financial manager, enjoyed annual adventures, especially to Africa. The journey in 2008, booked through an adventure-travel outfitter, took them to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, home to mountain gorillas. While there, the operators offered an optional trip, to a place called the Maramagambo Forest, where the chief attraction was a peculiar site known as Python Cave. African rock pythons lived there, languid and content, grown large and fat on a diet of bats."
More in The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/sep/28/deadly-viruses-ebola-marburg-sars
More on Quammen's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/quammen_david12.html
Picture: Egyptian fruit bats, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
