Sentences with phrase «vampire bats feed»
Vampire bats feed exclusively on blood, a mode of feeding unique amongst mammals.
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In order to control rabies transmitted by vampire bats, it is crucial to have a method that allows large - scale assessment of which animals the vampire bats feed from.
Bill Schutt skims the clotted clumps from fresh cow blood with a spaghetti strainer before his vampire bats feed.
It is also of note that we found no evidence of vampire bats feeding on humans from the DNA left over from their dinners».»
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After controlling for the availability of the animals, the scientists calculated that vampire bats were seven times more likely to feed on pigs than chance would predict, the team reports in the current issue of the Journal of Mammalogy.
«They are related to vampire bats, ghost - faced bats, fishing and frog - eating bats, and nectar - feeding bats, and belong to a bat superfamily that once spanned the southern landmasses of Australia, New Zealand, South America and possibly Antarctica.»
Apart from feeding on domestic animals, vampire bats occasionally took blood from wild tapirs, so the method may be useful for determining the distribution of elusive mammal prey.
The common vampire bat is widely distributed in Latin America, from Southern Mexico to Northern Chile, Brazil and Uruguay and often feeds on blood from domestic animals, such as cattle.
Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.
«Vampire bats are an incredibly adaptable species in terms of what animals they can feed on and where they can live.
Also the species composition of bats seems to play a role: Colonies with vampire bats, feeding on other animal's blood, supply more nitrogen to the trees than those without vampire bats.
Most cases of rabies in Latin America are caused by vampire bats, which bite victims at night and feed on their blood.