Roost switching and behavioural shifts following human disturbance of vampire bats in complex landscapes [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIn Latin America, management of vampire bats has had inconsistent effects on the spread of lethal rabies infections from bats to humans and livestock. Positive and negative effects on rabies are hypothesised to reflect changes in bat roost fidelity and ...
Rita Ribeiro +17 more
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Younger vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are more likely than adults to explore novel objects. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The effects of age on neophobia and exploration are best described in birds and primates, and broader comparisons require reports from other taxa. Here we present data showing age-dependent exploration in a long-lived social species, the common vampire ...
Gerald G Carter +3 more
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Habitat fragmentation is associated with dietary shifts and microbiota variability in common vampire bats [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Host ecological factors and external environmental factors are known to influence the structure of gut microbial communities, but few studies have examined the impacts of environmental changes on microbiotas in free‐ranging animals. Rapid land‐use change
Melissa R. Ingala +4 more
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Drivers of rabies virus spillover risk from vampire bats to livestock in Colombia. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesBackgroundRabies is an acute and progressive viral zoonotic disease of the nervous system, which widely affects domestic animals in Latin America. Vampire bat-borne rabies virus (RABV) has significant negative impacts on the livestock industry via animal
Paige Van de Vuurst +5 more
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Longitudinal Impacts of Forest Loss on Bartonella and Hemotropic Mycoplasma Dynamics in Vampire Bats Within a Fragmented Habitat. [PDF]
Mol EcolABSTRACT Habitat fragmentation can negatively impact wildlife, including increasing infectious disease risk. We assessed spatiotemporal changes in pathogen dynamics in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) in response to habitat fragmentation using general linear mixed models to investigate the influence of site, year, and tree cover on Bartonella spp.
Lock LR +6 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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Nature, 1883 DR. ROMANES, in criticising a book (“Zoological Sketches”), in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 333, says: “The writer speaks of vampire bats as those which suck the blood of sleeping persons, whereas the truth is, as Belt has remarked, ‘the vampire is the most harmless of bats.’”
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Social convergence of gut microbiomes in vampire bats. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2021 The ‘social microbiome’ can fundamentally shape the costs and benefits of group-living, but understanding social transmission of microbes in free-living animals is challenging due to confounding effects of kinship and shared environments (e.g. highly associated individuals often share the same spaces, food and water).
Yarlagadda K +3 more
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Can Farmers and Bats Co-exist? Farmer Attitudes, Knowledge, and Experiences with Bats in Belize
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2020 Bats (Chiroptera) are often viewed negatively by the public. Negative public perceptions of bats may hinder efforts to conserve declining populations.
Hannah G. Shapiro +3 more
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The Evolution of Sanguivory in Vampire Bats: Origins and Convergences [PDF]
, 2022 Blood-feeding (sanguivory) has evolved more than two dozen times among birds, fishes, insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans, and annelids; but among mammals, it is restricted to the vampire bats.
Riskin, Daniel +3 more
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