The common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, is the most abundant. At home in the tropical forests of Central and South America ...

Bats typically eat insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen. However, three outlier bat species make meals of larger creatures: the white-winged bat (Diaemus youngi), the hairy-legged bat (Diphylla ecaudata ...

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 ...

For more than 60 years, the building set for closure has been home to the zoo's fruit bats, foxes, sloths, porcupines, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

While culling reduced the bat population, it did not completely stop the hungry biters. About 59 percent of farms in the area reported having at least one animal bitten by a vampire bat three ...

As the animals huddle to hibernate ... “The movies make out this big old bloodsucking vampire bat,” he added, “and it’s just not the case.” Doling out a vaccine one by one clearly ...

Are climate change and hotter temperatures going to result in blood-drinking vampire bats swarming across Florida? Possibly someday, according to a new study published in the journal Ecography ...

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 ...

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 ...