AFAIK we have found that SARS-CoV-2 can infect certain animals but no-one has found it in any animals that are plausible candidates for the original zoonotic tr

AFAIK we have found that SARS-CoV-2 can infect certain animals but no-one has found it in any animals that are plausible candidates for the original zoonotic transfer. (If such candidates have been found, I'd like to learn about it!) For SARS and MERS we had identified candidates already by this stage.