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Vampire Bat Microbiome Metadata

, 2018
Metadata, including immune assays, sex, mass, and diet isotope data for Vampire bats whose microbiomes were sequenced in this ...
Nancy B. Simmons (5993005), Karsten Kristiansen (175581), Jacob Bak Holm (5992968), Melissa Ingala (4952917), Daniel J. Becker (5992954)   +4 more
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Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) in Botucatu region, SP, Brazil

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2009
The destruction of natural ecosystems has caused several problems to humans and other animals; herein we investigate the close relationship among vampire bats, humans and domestic animals. Toxoplasma gondii and Leptospira spp.
CB Zetun, JL Hoffmann, RC Silva, LC Souza, H Langoni   +4 more
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Epidemiology and biology of a herpesvirus in rabies endemic vampire bat populations

Nature Communications, 2020
Here, Griffiths et al. show infection of 80–100% of sampled vampire bats in Peru with a newly discovered betaherpesvirus (DrBHV) that exhibits specificity within neotropical bats and evidence for superinfection.
Megan E. Griffiths, Laura M. Bergner, Alice Broos, Diana K. Meza, Ana da Silva Filipe, Andrew Davison, Carlos Tello, Daniel J. Becker, Daniel G. Streicker   +8 more
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Using Drone‐Derived Imagery to Describe Prey Sharing Behaviors in Two Piscivorous Resident Killer Whale Populations

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Cooperative foraging occurs across diverse taxa and facilitates prey acquisition and social learning, particularly when prey is shared among group members. In Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca ater), prey sharing is central to how individuals acquire salmonid prey, yet current research has relied primarily on boat‐based observations.
Sharon W. C. Kay, Lance G. Barrett‐Lennard, Brittany C. Visona‐Kelly, Marie‐Ana Mikus, Michael N. Weiss, Darren P. Croft, Valeria Vergara, Holly Fearnbach, John W. Durban, Chris T. Darimont   +9 more
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Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of rabies exposure in vampire bats: implications for transmission and control

, 2012
Despite extensive culling of common vampire bats in Latin America, lethal human rabies outbreaks transmitted by this species are increasingly recognized, and livestock rabies occurs with striking frequency. To identify the individual and population-level
Valderrama, W., Gomez Benavides, J., Altizer, S., Pacheco, V., Montgomery, J., Rohani, P., Streicker, D.G., Recuenco, S., Vargas, I., Rupprecht, C.E., Condori Condori, R.E.   +10 more
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Possible Coevolution of Vampire Bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Desmodus) and Large Xenarthrans (Cingulata, Pilosa) in North America and South America During the Quaternary

Quaternary
Vampire bats likely first appeared in South America in the early Miocene (~20 Ma) and evolved to feed upon the blood of native South American mammals of medium to large body size, in particular, xenarthrans–ground sloths, armadillos, pampatheres, and ...
Gary Morgan, H. Gregory McDonald, Nicholas J. Czaplewski   +2 more
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Rabies surveillance in bats in Northwestern State of São Paulo

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014
Introduction Rabies is an important zoonosis that occurs in mammals, with bats acting as Lyssavirus reservoirs in urban, rural and natural areas.
Daiene Karina Azevedo Casagrande, Ana Beatriz Botto de Barros da Cruz Favaro, Cristiano de Carvalho, Mileia Ricci Picolo, Janaína Camila Borges Hernandez, Monique Serra Lot, Avelino Albas, Danielle Bastos Araújo, Wagner André Pedro, Luzia Helena Queiroz   +9 more
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Video S2. Captive-born vampire bats exploring a cage with a live animal. Supplementary video for Berrío-Martínez et al. (2019) PeerJ

, 2019
Video S2. This video shows four examples of captive-born common vampire bats exploring a cage with a live animal (a chicken). For details, see the paper "The role of past experience in development of feeding behavior in common vampire bats" in PeerJ by ...
Gerald Carter (731475)
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High-resolution association data in wild vampire bats.

, 2020
(A) Meeting history of a single vampire bat (ID 56; 50 tagged bats in total) with other tagged bats. Red lines show meetings between bat 56 and other tagged bats (right-hand y-axis). The black line shows the degree centrality (number of associated tagged
Falko Dressler (8661147), Niklas Duda (6280538), Jörg Robert (8661132), Peter Wägemann (8661141), Markus Hartmann (55008), Rachel A. Page (7442609), Jörn Thielecke (8661126), Klaus Meyer-Wegener (8661138), Robert Weigel (5988104), Gerald G. Carter (8661120), Simon P. Ripperger (7251800), Thorsten Nowak (1637884), Michael Schadhauser (8661129), Rüdiger Kapitza (6280547), Alexander Koelpin (8661123), Sebastian Herbst (8661135), Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat (8661144), Frieder Mayer (171296), Björn Cassens (6280544)   +18 more
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Outbreak of aggressions and transmission of rabies in human beings by vampire bats in northeastern Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2002
Outbreaks of attacks upon human beings by vampire bats seems to be a common phenomenon in several regions of Latin America, but the occurrence of rabies infection among humans bled by vampires, is relatively low.
Marcio A.S. Gonçalves, Raymundo J. Sá-Neto, Tania K. Brazil   +2 more
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