Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Extreme Heat – and Maybe a Virus – Wiped Out Cambodian Bats May 16, 2019 Author: Wildlife Conservation Society Category: Feed WCS 3-Sentence Science: A mass mortality event involving two bat species, the wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat (Chaerephon plicatus) and Theobold's bat (Taphozous theobaldi) occurred during a heat wave in April 2016 in Cambodia.