Sentences with phrase «vampire bats share»

We also learn how bees broadcast the locations of flowers through choreographed dance and how vampire bats share their blood meals even with non-relatives.

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

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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.

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).

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.

Captive vampire bats that shared blood with non-kin reaped benefits.

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.