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Current Biology, 2019 Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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, 2023 Are you fascinated by bats and their unique abilities? Get ready to explore a world of animals similar to bats. From microbats to megabats, vampire moths to vampire bats, these creatures share intriguing characteristics.
Erzsebet Frey
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Assessing the potential impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of a rabies virus vector.
PLoS ONE, 2018 Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) occur throughout much of South America to northern México. Vampire bats have not been documented in recent history in the United States, but have been documented within about 50 km of the U.S.
Mark A Hayes, Antoinette J Piaggio
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 Regulatory evolution is thought to be fundamental to adaptive evolution. However, the identification of specific regulatory changes responsible for adaptation are sparse. Bats of the family Phyllostomidae, owing to their unparalleled rate of ecological
Caleb Dakotah Phillips +4 more
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Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2022 Bats are important reservoirs of viral entities that cause diverse economical and health problems in several sectors. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the rabies virus in vampire bats.
Aldo Espinoza-Gómez +8 more
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Does Mouth-Licking In Vampire Bats Serve Other Functions Besides Food Sharing? [PDF]
Animal Behavior and CognitionRegurgitated food sharing in vampire bats is a cooperative behavior that has garnered scientific interest as an example of reciprocal helping among kin and non-kin. The amount of food given is estimated via the duration of mouth-licking.
Tatyana Sopka +2 more
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Optimizing sampling design to deal with mist-net avoidance in Amazonian birds and bats [PDF]
, 2013 Mist netting is a widely used technique to sample bird and bat assemblages. However, captures often decline with time because animals learn and avoid the locations of nets. This avoidance or net shyness can substantially decrease sampling efficiency.
Marques, Joao Tiago +28 more
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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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Non-kin adoption in the common vampire bat [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Individual animals across many different species occasionally ‘adopt’ unrelated, orphaned offspring. Although adoption may be best explained as a by-product of adaptive traits that enhance parental care or promote the development of parental skills, one factor that is possibly important for the likelihood of adoption is the history of cooperative ...
Imran Razik +3 more
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Bats and their role in human rabies epidemiology in the Americas
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2008 Bats are very interesting animals: they are the unique flying mammals, have developed a highly sophisticated echolocation system, and have become specialized to eat different types of diets.
F. Dantas-Torres
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