Sentences with phrase «vampire bat»

She's desperate for a pair of plastic fangs so she can trick or treat as a vampire bat on Halloween, with tomato sauce dribbling down her chin as fake blood.

I don't know what's better about her: the idle dancing, the transformations to vampire bat and werewolf or her random banter.

In the game, you take the role of «Shuggy», who seems to be a purple vampire bat thingy, and attempt to solve various different puzzles in your attempt to repair the Mansion you're in.

#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!

In an article published in the journal Acta Chiropterologica, researchers in the country have documented for the first time the presence of human blood in the feces of the hairy - legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata).

The vampire bat's diet consists of blood.

Compared with bats of other species, the common vampire bat may even seem to have superpower moves: Instead of just flying, it easily runs on the ground.

A common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) can't survive three days without drinking blood, says evolutionary biologist Gerald Wilkinson of the University of Maryland in College Park.

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

A major factor in the increase has been the growing numbers of livestock across the continent, which has allowed vampire bat populations to more than double in some places.

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.

«Rainbow boa preying on a vampire bat in a cave in Ecuador.»

The rainbow boa having just swallowed the adult female vampire bat, observed in a 450 - meter - long cave in Tena, Ecuador.

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:

«This new method to simultaneously screen many vampire bat samples for both diet and population structure is of value to future studies on vampire bat biology and for assessment of vampire bat related pathogen transmission risks.

«New DNA screening reveals whose blood the vampire bat is drinking: Diet DNA.»

In diet studies, the DNA metabarcoding technique is normally only used to assess diet, but in this study the researchers go one step further and show for the first time that the technique can also give insights into the vampire bat's population structure.

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.

When the vampire bat bites there is a risk of transmission of diseases such as rabies.

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.

Furthermore, the authors show that the technique can be used to simultaneously assess the vampire bat's population structure.

The vampire bat lives up to its name.

Scientists discovered a new retrovirus «fossil» found in the common vampire bat which is homologous to retroviruses in rodents and primates.

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.

Julius notes that his team found the short version of TRPV1 in only the vampire bat's facial nerves; nerves in other parts of the bat's body make the longer, pain - sensing version of TRPV1.

The classic Darwinian theory of natural selection suggests that individuals who cooperate threaten their own evolutionary fitness, since cooperation always involves a cost to the self (the vampire bat that shares blood has less food for itself).

At least not until Cornell University biologist Daniel Riskin dropped a common vampire bat onto a treadmill, only to be stunned as it broke into a bounding run.

Even the part where I'm hallucinating that there's a small vampire bat clinging to my breast...

The gnawing anxiety sticks to you like a vampire bat, leeching the joy and peace out of situations that have nothing to do with...

At one recent session the room was hung with miniature vampire bats and decorated with Dracula cartoons.

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.

Vampire bats are extremely intelligent: They have a social order that's similar to that of other primates, they share food and information with their brethren, and they even adopt orphans.

Vampire bats are nothing if not sneaky, and at close quarters, lying low is probably more unobtrusive than a nosedive.

Rocke's lab is working on a topical vaccine against white - nose syndrome, which threatens bats (SN Online: 3/31/16), and one to combat rabies in common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus).

Vampire bats in particular nuzzle each other during social grooming.

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.

«Cows are the main food source for common vampire bats, but there were no cows in Central and South America when vampire bats evolved,» says Riskin.

In October in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, her lab reported that the vaccine works in captured big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), but it still hasn't been tested in vampire bats, key rabies carriers in South America.

Rocke and colleagues hope to start trials in vampire bats this year in Mexico and Peru.

The researchers spent 47 nights in 18 villages in the Amazon and captured 157 vampire bats to collect fecal samples.

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

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

Female vampire bats usually roost together in small groups of eight to 12.

But strict reciprocity doesn't completely describe what's going on with vampire bats, primates, humans, dolphins, elephants, and other social animals.

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

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.

Though many species of bats roost in groups, vampire bats are unique in their sharing of blood meals and in their propensity for social grooming.

Carter and his colleagues hope that cuddly vampire bats might point the way to the biology underlying generosity and different styles of friendship.

Vampire bats must consume 70 % to 80 % of their body weight in blood almost every night.

Gerald Carter spends hours watching vampire bats share their meals with one another.