Genomic Analysis Reveals Many Animal Species May Be Vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 Infection | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/genomic-analysis-reveals-many-animal-species-may-be-vulnerable-sars-cov-2-infection
A new genomic study ranks the potential of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to bind to the ACE2 receptor site in 410 vertebrate animals. Old World primates and great apes, which have identical amino acids at the binding site as humans, are predicted to have a very high propensity for binding ACE2 and are likely susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Asian elephants — Spike, Bozie, Kamala