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Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths [PDF]
Text Matters, 2016 We all know vampires. Count Dracula and Nosferatu, maybe Blade and Angel, or Stephenie Meyer’s sparkling beau, Edward Cullen. In fact, the Euro-American vampire myth has long become one of the most reliable and bestselling fun-rides the entertainment ...
Corinna Lenhardt
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Vampire Bat Rabies: Ecology, Epidemiology and Control
Viruses, 2014 Extensive surveillance in bat populations in response to recent emerging diseases has revealed that this group of mammals acts as a reservoir for a large range of viruses.
Nicholas Johnson
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Social Grooming in Bats: Are Vampire Bats Exceptional? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Evidence for long-term cooperative relationships comes from several social birds and mammals. Vampire bats demonstrate cooperative social bonds, and like primates, they maintain these bonds through social grooming.
Gerald G Carter
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Ganglion-specific splicing of TRPV1 underlies infrared sensation in vampire bats [PDF]
Nature, 2011 Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are obligate blood feeders that have evolved specialized systems to suit their sanguinary lifestyle. Chief among such adaptations is the ability to detect infrared radiation as a means of locating hotspots on warm-blooded
Elena O Gracheva +2 more
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Diversity of Ehrlichia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Neorickettsia spp. in vampire bats [PDF]
Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne DiseasesAlthough bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) act as natural reservoirs for many zoonotic pathogens around the world, few studies have investigated the occurrence of Anaplasmataceae agents in bats, especially vampire bats.
Victória Valente Califre de Mello +8 more
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Viruses, 2021 The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a hematophagous species responsible for paralytic rabies and bite damage that affects livestock, humans and wildlife from Mexico to Argentina. Current measures to control vampires, based upon coumarin-derived
Horacio A. Delpietro +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The use of 2D alpha-shapes (α-shapes) to quantify morphological features of the retinal microvasculature could lead to imaging biomarkers for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).
Emma Pead +6 more
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A contribution to the vampire studies among Serbs or vampire stories from Luznica [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2004 This paper is the result of original fieldwork performed in the village of Strelac, in southeast Serbia during August 2003. All Slavs believed in the existence of a vampire; still today, this belief is widespread among Serbs.
Blagojević Gordana
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META-MORFUL – CONSTRUCT AL IMAGINARULUI FANTASTIC ELIADESC / THE META-MORPHUS – CONSTRUCT OF THE FANTASTIC ELIADESCIAN IMAGINARY [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2022 Romanian folklore and its fundamental myths have aroused a real interest both for the researcher in the field of the history of religions and for the writer.
Liliana Danciu
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"Blood Suckers Most Cruel:" The Vampire and the Bat In and Before Dracula [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019 The relationship between the nineteenth century vampire monster and the vampire bat has not yet been seriously investigated in English. Three common assumptions made by experts are examined in this paper.
Kevin Dodd
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