Bat cave. Image by Openverse. The most extraordinary social behavior in vampire bats—and the cornerstone of their complex social system—is their food-sharing behavior. When successful foragers return ...

Like the mythical creature they're named after, vampire bats do drink the blood of other animals for survival. However, they don't hunt human beings and they live mainly in Mexico, Central America, ...

Vampire bats represent nature’s only exclusively hematophagous (blood-feeding) mammals, conducting their specialized hunting exclusively at night. Found in Latin America, these small bats locate ...