Sentences with phrase «by vampire bats»

Most cases of rabies in Latin America are caused by vampire bats, which bite victims at night and feed on their blood.

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.

Not exact matches

According to previous research by Galetti's group, feral pigs and cross-bred pig - boars are a public health hazard because they have become a major source of food for vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) and have thereby fueled an increase in this rabies vector.

By having friends that are not kin, female vampire bats appear to be setting up a safety net.

A new review by an international team of scientists, including Stony Brook University Professor Liliana M. Dávalos, reports an analysis of the incredibly diverse «lost world» of Caribbean fossils that includes giant rodents, vampire bats, enigmatic monkeys, ground sloths, shrews and dozens of other ancient mammals.

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.

«We were surprised to get a result that suggests that vampire bats may not be the reservoir for this retrovirus but might have been infected independently of monkeys and rats by a yet undiscovered reservoir,» says Marina Escalera, leading author of the study.

Vampire Bats The saliva of these blood - consuming predators contains an anticoagulant, dubbed draculin by the researchers who found it, that can dissolve blood clots.

Brazilian children are being menaced while they sleep by rabid vampire bats that have killed 23 people and bitten more than 1300 since September.

Tuttle shares research showing that frog - eating bats can identify frogs by their calls, that vampire bats have a social order similar to that of primates, and that bats have remarkable memories.

Three screenings today, and the final experiential tally includes three bared buttocks, approximately 13 deaths, one ripped - off mustache, one scene of Malin Akerman preparing to do some blow, one vampire squirrel, one gay smooch, two mentions of the Kardashians, one joke at the expense of Lindsay Lohan, one drunken toast by Elijah Wood, one FOX News reference and one decapitation by baseball bat.

JOHNNY KAPAHALA: BACK ON BOARD premiered on Disney Channel on June 8, 2007 and was directed by Eric Bross (VAMPIRE BATS and MARTHA BEHIND BARS) and written by Max Enscoe and Annie deYoung (RETURN TO HALLOWEENTOWN), and Ann Knapp and Douglas Sloan (JOHNNY TSUNAMI).

Whenever Mina becomes a vampire (forgiving first that she is overtly a vampire and next that she is ever anything besides a vampire), her transformation is inexplicably accompanied by a massive colony of bats; Dorian Gray is both immortal and invulnerable; although Captain Nemo dubs his invention of a roadster «an automobile,» everyone promptly calls it a «car;» and Mr. Hyde looks just like a small Welsh actor in a blow - up rubber suit.

His creative world is populated by grotesque creatures, trimmed with a hocus pocus collection of vampires, bats and spiders, littered with bare - boned figures and dismembered body parts, threatened by an evil Oogie Boogie Man, (voice of Ken Page), and decorated with depictions of female victimization, torture and poisoning.

The company says that it has paid out at least two claims under Alien Abduction Insurance when two people claimed that they have been bitten by vampires (they were actually bitten by a bat).