Bats typically eat insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen. However, three outlier bat species make meals of larger creatures: the ...

Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human ...

Whichever method is used to mitigate vampire bat-human conflicts, more empathy for these misunderstood animals could only help. After all, if you stick your head into a hollow tree full of vampire ...

Whichever method is used to mitigate vampire-bat-human conflicts, more empathy for these misunderstood animals could only help. After all, if you stick your head into a hollow tree full of vampire ...

(Learn more about why female vampire bats in particular help each other out.) First proposed in 1998, the theory may hold true in other social animals—including humans. That’s why studying ...

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the animals on tiny treadmills. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Turns out, vampire bats have a kind of remote sensing ability that can tell them where there is a warm patch of skin on a nearby animal. A warm patch of skin means there are blood vessels just ...

“They don’t want to flutter down and drop right on the back of a cow,” said Kenneth Welch, a biologist at the University of Toronto Scarborough, who studies vampire bats and other animals ...

A new study from Biology Letters sought to learn how vampire bats metabolize their food, considering they exclusively live on the blood of other animals. Blood is not high in fat or carbs ...

Imagine if we had too many vampire bats because we didn’t have this virus,” he says. Because bats are social animals that tend to roost together and form colonies, rabies spreads easily among ...