Vampire bats need to get about 2 tablespoons of blood a day to live. To find it, the animals are able to detect heat — and where there's heat, there are blood vessels close to the surface.

Vaccinating vampire bats against rabies can help prevent the spread of the disease to livestock and humans. NPR's Scott Simon ...

Each participant reported exposure to the bat -- common in the Amazonian region -- through a bite, scratch or skin contact. 50 people reported previous bat bites, but only one of the seven with ...

Why you want a vampire bat bite. By LiveScience. Published August 4, 2012 12 ... Their trick: Vampire bats exposed the remote Peruvians to enough of the rabies virus to confer resistance, ...

Vampire bats that form bonds in captivity and continue those 'friendships' in the wild also hunt together, meeting up over a meal after independent departures from the roost, according to a new study.

The vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, must find a blood meal every one to two days to survive. Razor-sharp teeth and infrared-sensing 'pit organs' surrounding its nose help the bat achieve this goal ...

About 81 percent of rabies outbreaks in Peru from 1996 to 2010 were linked to vampire bat bites, according to the Peruvian Ministry of Health (pdf in Spanish).

Vampire bats have the fewest teeth of any bat species: twenty-six in Diphylla ecaudata, the hairy-legged vampire bat; twenty-two in Diaemus youngi, the white-winged vampire bat; and twenty in Desmodus ...

A new study found that the movement of vampire bat ... disease in cattle in 2016 and has a campaign to educate farmers in both the U.S. and Mexico on the signs of vampire bat bites. “This bat ...

A t the bat conference held last week in Tarragona, Spain, it was not easy to catch Orly Razgour. The prestigious biologist and ethologist from the University of Exeter was one of the busiest ...

The bites don’t kill, but if a vampire bat is carrying rabies, the disease eventually will. Vampire bats are a particular menace to the cattle industry in Latin America.

Vampire Bat Bites Help Shield Peruvians from Rabies. News. By Trevor Stokes published 1 August 2012 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.