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The “Vampire Bat” [PDF]

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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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, Adam S. Willcox, Mallory Tate, Emma V. Willcox   +3 more
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Virulent Brucella nosferati infecting Desmodus rotundus has emerging potential due to the broad foraging range of its bat host for humans and wild and domestic animals

mSphere, 2023
Desmodus rotundus, vampire bats, transmit dangerous infections, and brucellosis is a hazardous zoonotic disease, two adversities that coexist in the subtropical and tropical areas of the American continent.
Gabriela Hernández-Mora, Carlos Chacón-Díaz, Andres Moreira-Soto, Osvaldo Barrantes-Granados, Marcela Suárez-Esquivel, Eunice Viquez-Ruiz, Elías Barquero-Calvo, Nazareth Ruiz-Villalobos, Daniela Hidalgo-Montealegre, Rocío González-Barrientos, Elena A. Demeter, Josimar Estrella-Morales, Ana-Mariel Zúñiga-Pereira, Carlos Quesada-Gómez, Esteban Chaves-Olarte, Bruno Lomonte, Caterina Guzmán-Verri, Jan Felix Drexler, Edgardo Moreno   +18 more
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In Cold Blood: Compositional Bias and Positive Selection Drive the High Evolutionary Rate of Vampire Bats Mitochondrial Genomes. [PDF]

Genome Biol Evol, 2018
Botero-Castro F, Tilak MK, Justy F, Catzeflis F, Delsuc F, Douzery EJP.   +5 more
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Adult vampire bats produce contact calls when isolated: acoustic variation by species, population, colony, and individual. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Bat pups produce individually distinct isolation calls to facilitate maternal recognition. Increasing evidence suggests that, in group-living bat species, adults often use similar calls to maintain contact.
Gerald G Carter, Ryane Logsdon, Bryan D Arnold, Angelica Menchaca, Rodrigo A Medellin   +4 more
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Spatial expansions and travelling waves of rabies in vampire bats [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2016
Benavides J, Valderrama W, Streicker D.
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Bat rabies in Guatemala. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
Rabies in bats is considered enzootic throughout the New World, but few comparative data are available for most countries in the region. As part of a larger pathogen detection program, enhanced bat rabies surveillance was conducted in Guatemala, between ...
James A Ellison, Amy T Gilbert, Sergio Recuenco, David Moran, Danilo A Alvarez, Natalia Kuzmina, Daniel L Garcia, Leonard F Peruski, Mary T Mendonça, Kim A Lindblade, Charles E Rupprecht   +10 more
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Foraging choices of vampire bats in diverse landscapes: potential implications for land‐use change and disease transmission [PDF]

Journal of Applied Ecology, 2016
Daniel G. Streicker, Jacob E. Allgeier
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Vampire Bat Control in Mexico [PDF]

Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 1970
Though usually beneficial, bats sometimes are a nuisance to humans (Greenhall & Stell, 1960), or may even constitute serious economic problems and health hazards. Most important in this respect are the vampire bats, especially of the genus Desmodus, which are abundant from northern Argentina through the whole of Latin America to the north of Mexico ...
Schmidt, U., Greenhall, (Arthur M.), Lopez-Forment, W.   +2 more
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Vampire bats [PDF]

Current Biology, 2019
Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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