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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 Carter, Lauren Leffer
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Frontiers in Virology, 2022 The apparent ability of bats to harbor many virulent viruses without showing disease is likely driven by distinct immune responses that coevolved with mammalian flight and the exceptional longevity of this order.
Daniel J. Becker +9 more
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A method for rapid testing of social learning in vampire bats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Designing experiments on social learning using an untested behaviour or species requires baseline knowledge of how the animals will perform. We conducted a pilot study of a procedure for rapidly testing social learning in the highly social common vampire
Julia K. Vrtilek +4 more
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Dynamics of Rabies Epidemics in Vampire Bats [PDF]
Complexity, 2020 In order to study the transmission of rabies epidemics in vampire bats, we propose a mathematical model for vampire bat rabies virus. A threshold R0 is identified which determines the outcome of the disease.
Liang Tian, Juping Zhang
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Social bet-hedging in vampire bats. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2017 Helping kin or nonkin can provide direct fitness benefits, but helping kin also benefits indirect fitness. Why then should organisms invest in cooperative partnerships with nonkin, if kin relationships are available and more beneficial? One explanation is that a kin-limited support network is too small and risky.
Carter GG, Farine DR, Wilkinson GS.
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Social dominance and cooperation in female vampire bats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 When group-living animals develop individualized social relationships, they often regulate cooperation and conflict through a dominance hierarchy. Female common vampire bats have been an experimental system for studying cooperative relationships, yet ...
Rachel J. Crisp +2 more
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Serum proteomics reveals a tolerant immune phenotype across multiple pathogen taxa in wild vampire bats [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 Bats carry many zoonotic pathogens without showing pronounced pathology, with a few exceptions. The underlying immune tolerance mechanisms in bats remain poorly understood, although information-rich omics tools hold promise for identifying a wide range ...
Amanda Vicente-Santos +18 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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Habituation of common vampire bats to biologgers. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2021 Rapid advancements in biologging technology have led to unprecedented insights into animal behaviour, but testing the effects of biologgers on tagged animals is necessary for both scientific and ethical reasons. Here, we measured how quickly 13 wild-caught and captively isolated common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) habituated to mock proximity ...
Kline E, Ripperger SP, Carter GG.
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Social foraging in vampire bats is predicted by long-term cooperative relationships. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2021 Stable social bonds in group-living animals can provide greater access to food. A striking example is that female vampire bats often regurgitate blood to socially bonded kin and nonkin that failed in their nightly hunt.
Simon P Ripperger, Gerald G Carter
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