Sentences with phrase «from vampire bats»

From vampire bats to parasitic catfish, a new book spells out the secret lives of plasma - loving beasts.

Another downside of blood is its low fat content, at least from the vampire bat point of view.

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Bill Schutt skims the clotted clumps from fresh cow blood with a spaghetti strainer before his vampire bats feed.

In effect, Julius says, vampire bats have converted the channel from a detector of things that are painfully hot to one that reacts to things at body temperature — like blood.

It is based on a protein, originally isolated from the saliva of vampire bats, and the resulting drug is called Draculin.

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.

It is also of note that we found no evidence of vampire bats feeding on humans from the DNA left over from their dinners».»

Vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) samples from Mexico and from the Berlin Zoological Garden revealed a new endogenous retrovirus (named DrERV after Desmodus rotundus endogenous retrovirus) that is also present in rodents and primates but is absent in other closely related bat species.

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.

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.

And we more or less get this additional information for free because the vampire bat's DNA is found in the DNA that we extract from blood meal and faecal samples,» says Kristine Bohmann, who adds:

Apart from the detailed description, the scientists also provide a film, showing almost in full the event of a rainbow boa catching, killing and swallowing an adult female common vampire bat.

Vampire bats devote more of their space to the long tubules that deal with reabsorbing useful substances from just - made urine, he notes.

An international group of scientists including several from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) analysed the genome of vampire bats and the microorganisms that live in their gut and asked the question how much the viruses contained in the blood may affect the vampire bats.

#thankyouvampirebats #BatAppreciationDayOne of the most vilified bat species is the common vampire bat, but if you or someone you know has suffered from a heart attack or stroke you should be saying Thank You!

«I really don't think race, gender, and this stuff is as big a factor as people want it to be,» says Amirpour, who was inspired to cloak her vampire in a chador after traveling from Los Angeles to her parents» native Iran and admiring the garment's bat - like quality.

As if it were not enough that vampire bats can swoop down from the sky to get a blood dinner from their victims, it turns out that they also can run on the ground to sneak up on them.

The title was conceived after Price noted that the central form mimicked that of the transformational shape of Count Dracula from vampire to bat.