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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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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Reproductive seasonality, sex ratio and philopatry in Argentina's common vampire bats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are a key rabies vector in South America. Improved management of this species requires long-term, region-specific information.
Gerald G Carter
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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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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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The role of past experience in development of feeding behavior in common vampire bats [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The life history strategy of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) suggests that learning might play a role in development of their foraging skills.
Jineth Berrío-Martínez +4 more
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Serological Surveillance of Rabies in Free-Range and Captive Common Vampire Bats Desmodus rotundus [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 The control of vampire bat rabies (VBR) in Brazil is based on the culling of Desmodus rotundus and the surveillance of outbreaks caused by D. rotundus in cattle and humans in addition to vaccination of susceptible livestock.
Jane Megid +14 more
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Vampire bats in Belize harbor multiple Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes: Implications for parasite transmission at the wildlife-domestic-human interface. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesBackgroundChagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, is a neglected tropical disease with complex sylvatic and domestic transmission cycles involving vectors, mammalian hosts, and humans.
Annalise Dunsmore +8 more
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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.
Nick Johnson +2 more
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