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	The Spooky Vampire Bat From It's Nature
		Vampire bats feed on the blood of large birds, cattle, horses, and pigs.
		Vampire bats are one of the few bat species that are considered a pest.
		The Common Vampire Bat feeds mostly on the blood of mammals, whereas the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat, and the White-winged Vampire Bat feed on the blood of birds.
	www.itsnature.org /Air/Spooky_Vampire_Bat.php (622 words)

	Vampire bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Vampire Bat feeds mostly on the blood of mammals, whereas the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat, and the White-winged Vampire Bat feed on the blood of birds.
		Vampire bats are common carriers of the deadly rabies virus which, aside from its danger to humans, is responsible for the deaths of many thousands of farm animals each year in tropical and sub-tropical America.
		(1984) A suspected infrared-recipient nucleus in the brainstem of the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vampire_bat (822 words)

	Common Vampire Bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a species of vampire bat.
		The vampire bats have a wingspan of about eight inches and a body about the size of an adult's thumb.
		Vampire bats feed on the blood of large birds, cattle, horses, and pigs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desmodus (246 words)

	true vampire bat - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about true vampire bat
		The vampire bat is the only mammal to live as a parasite.
		Vampire bats feed on the blood of birds and mammals;; they slice a piece of skin from a sleeping animal with their sharp incisor teeth and lap up the flowing blood.
		Vampire bats are intelligent and among the few mammals to show altruistic behaviour (they adopt orphans and help other bats in need).
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /true+vampire+bat (299 words)

	Vampire Bat
		Vampire bats are active only during the darkest periods of the night.
		The vampire bat can transmit rabies to livestock and man. To control the vampire bats, cattle have been injected with anticoagulants, substances which cause internal bleeding in the feeding bats.
		Vampire bats have been known to feed on humans in their sleep.
	wonderclub.com /Wildlife/mammals/vampirebat.html (475 words)

	Animal Encyclopedia: Vampire Bat
		You may follow your nose to the nearest pizza place, but vampire bats use their ears to figure out where the next meal is. Like many species of bats, these Central and South American mammals use "echolocation" to find food--and find their way--in total darkness.
		By listening to the sounds, or echoes, that bounce back, they can determine exactly where an object or prey animal is. If a vampire bat comes upon a sleeping bird or other prey mammal, he makes a small bite in the skin and laps up the blood from the wound.
		One other cool thing about vampire bats is that their knees face backwards.
	www.animaland.org /asp/encyclopedia/vampirebat.asp (156 words)

	AllRefer.com - vampire bat (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		Vampire bats feed exclusively on the blood of living animals and are thus the only true parasites among mammals.
		Unlike most bats, vampire bats can walk on all fours with the body lifted off the ground; it is in this manner that they approach their sleeping prey.
		They are mutual groomers, and an effective method of reducing their numbers is to coat a captured bat with a sticky poison and release it; when the bat returns to its roost the poison will be licked by other bats.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/vampireb.html (396 words)

	PETroglyphs THE WILD SIDE -- THE BATMAN OF TIJERAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the bats, a female juvenile that Abram named Mary, was lethargic after the long journey, he recalled, “so I hand fed her from a vial that I had prepared.” The colony rejected Mary, so she moved to her own private digs.
		The bats have heat sensors in their noses that tell them where the capillaries are closest to the skin surface.” The bats select an area to feed, lick the area to soften the skin, and then make a small bite, he said.
		The presentation begins with an explanation of vampires and vampire myths around the world then moves into a scientific presentation of bats and how their habitats are being destroyed.
	www.petroglyphsnm.org /wildsides/bats.html (1699 words)

	Vampire Bat
		Vampire bats sometimes attack humans, but will do so only if desperate, because they do not like the taste of human blood as much as that of livestock.
		The bat then walks up to it and climbs on the animal, locates a section where the blood is flowing close to the skin’s surface with the heat sensors located on its nose, shears the hair in that spot, punctures the skin and laps up approximately two tablespoons of blood.
		Vampire bats are considered serious pests to farmers, because they can spread rabies or other diseases to the animal they have bitten, and the wounds they leave behind provide wonderful locations for screwworm flies to lay their eggs.
	www.wildinfo.com /facts/Vampire.asp?page=/facts/Vampire.asp (549 words)

	Biogeography of Vampire Bat
		Vampire bats are very ordinary looking, weighting about one ounce and with a body the size of an adult’s thumb.
		Vampire bats are considered agricultural pests in many parts of Mexico and Latin America where rainforests have been cut down to make way for grazing cattle.
		Vampires may have evolved from feeding on the insects and larvae on the wounds of large mammals (Altringham 1996).
	bss.sfsu.edu /geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/vampire.htm (1986 words)

	Meet Our Bats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vampire bats evolved from leaf-nosed bats by eating burrowing insects like screwworms that burrow into the skin of animals.
		Vampire bats have the fewest teeth of all bats.
		Due to the vast habitat destruction and development in agriculture and increased livestock, Common vampire bats have greatly increased in population to the point that in some areas are considered pests.
	www.batconservation.org /content/meetourbats/vampire.htm (743 words)

	ANIMAL BYTES - Common Vampire Bat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vampire bats have fewer teeth than any other bat because they do not have to chew their food.
		Vampire bats in the same colony support their roostmates by regurgitating blood to bats that are unable to find food.
		Vampire bats are considered agricultural pests in Latin America where cattle raising is taking precedence over the rain forests.
	www.seaworld.org /animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/mammalia/chiroptera/common-vampire-bat.htm (213 words)

	Bat CREW
		Vampire bats are the most feared and misunderstood of all bats.
		Originally, vampires fed on the blood of wild animals and the population of bats was held in check by the amount of food available.
		The common vampire bat is a crevice dweller, sometimes roosting alone, but most often in small colonies or in colonies of up to a thousand.
	www.batcrew.com /vampires.html (1173 words)

	Vampire Bat Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		Vampire Bats are microchiropterans, bats who use echolocation.
		The vampire bat is the only bat (and the only mammal) that eats blood, preying on cattle, horses, large birds and pigs.
		Vampire bats don't suck animals' blood, they make a small hole with their two very sharp incisor teeth and lap up the blood, which doesn't clot (thicken) because of anti-coagulants (anti-thickeners) in the bat's saliva.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/bat/Vbatcoloring.shtml (255 words)

	Vampire bat: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vampire bats are common carriers of the deadly rabies rabies quick summary:
		Vampire bats tend to live in almost completely dark places, EHandler: no quick summary.
		A vampire is a mythical or folklorefolkloric creature said to subsist on human and/or animal blood often having magical powers and the ability to transform....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/va/vampire_bat.htm (1183 words)

	Bat Conservation International- Newsletter- February 2003
		Vampire bats use the enzyme to keep the blood flowing after a tiny wound is opened in an animal, which usually sleeps through the bat's meal.
		DSPA was isolated from vampire bat saliva and synthesized in the lab.
		BCI is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to the conservation of bats and bat habitats worldwide, and is recognized as the international leader in bat conservation, research and management initiatives.
	www.batcon.org /newsletter/enews-0203/enews-0203-medicine.html (610 words)

	Vampire Bat - Desmodus rotundus
		The Vampire bat is about 3 inches long and has a wingspan of about 8 inches.
		The Vampire bat has a clawed thumb that comes out of the front edge of the wing.
		The vampire bat is a predator and prey.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /vampire_bat.htm (337 words)

	Vampire Bat Facts: By Erin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vampire Bats have been known on occasion to bite a sleeping human if prey is scarce and the opportunity arises (like an open window).
		When a Vampire Bat does bite a human it is while the person is asleep and they feel no pain, or don't even wake up from the bite.
		Because Vampire Bats feed from their sleeping prey from the ground, they have to be able to get around on all fours and be quick.
	gothicatheart.ethh.net /VampBatFacts.html (1275 words)

	vampire
		The most common variation of the myth portrays the vampire as a dead person who rises from the grave at night to seek his victim from the realm of the sleeping.
		This cultural link between vampirism and the quest for immortality seems to have been subordinated in literature and film, where other themes, such as blood for blood's sake, fear for fear's sake, or entrance into the realm of the occult, seem to dominate.
		The 15-year-old daughter of the victims is one of the suspects, along with her boyfriend who was described by schoolmates as having boasted of immortality as a vampire.
	skepdic.com /vampires.html (846 words)

	The Vampire Bat
		Vampire bats can live up to 12 years and usually roost in caves, in fact they are cave ceiling 'dome roosters' but they will also roost in a variety of other less suitable sites such as hollow trees, old wells, mine shafts, and even abandoned buildings.
		Where ever Vampire bats roost, usually there is the strong odor of ammonia from the pools of their distinctive fl tarry droppings that collect on the floor of the roost site.
		Vampires roost in numbers from as few as six to up to over two thousand, but the usual colony size is around a hundred or so.
	www.conservationcentre.org /scase7.html (1384 words)

	LiveScience.com - Yikes! Vampire Bats Can Run, Too
		Vampire bats must have regained the ability to run, says Cornell University researcher Daniel Riskin, who led the new experiments.
		Vampire bats, it seems, are over-evolved, now that their prey are just lumbering cattle.
		A vampire bat's wingspan is typically 8 inches, though its body is about the size of an adult human thumb.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/050316_bats_run.html (776 words)

	Bats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bats are the largest group of mammals in the world and make up about 20% of all mammals (1 out of every 5).
		The only bat which causes any destruction that affects people is the vampire bat, which feeds on cattle in Mexico and South America.
		Bats come in all kinds of sizes from the bumble bee bat, which is often mistaken for a bee, and some megabats which can have a wingspan of up to five feet.
	www.debbiesthemes.com /forbes/bats/bats.html (287 words)

	The Bloodthirsty Vampire Bat
		The word vampire means "to prey off of others." These bats are called vampires because they drink the blood of other animals.
		These little bats are only about the size of a sparrow, so sneaking up on an animal is not too difficult.
		Vampire bats have good vision, heat sensors, special chemicals, and razor sharp teeth.
	www.discoverymagazine.com /articles/d2000/d0010d.htm (386 words)

	LiveScience.com - Behind the Recent Spate of Vampire Bat Attacks
		Bites from rabid vampire bats were blamed for 23 deaths in northern Brazil over the past two months, according to local newspaper reports.
		Vampire bats live in subtropical and tropical regions in northern Mexico and throughout parts of South America.
		In the rare instances when vampire bats attack humans, it's usually because their regular food supply disappears; often the farm animals have been moved or taken to market.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/051104_vampire_bats.html (747 words)

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		Most bats are awkward on the ground, but the common vampire bat can bound along at more than 1 metre per second.
		In the wild, vampire bats feed on the blood of large animals such as cattle, horses and pigs.
		The bats are most likely to run when moving between animals, and may have acquired the skill before the arrival of domestic livestock, at which point dinner became an easier meal.
	www.nature.com /news/2005/050314/pf/050314-9_pf.html (467 words)

	Cornell News: vampire bats run
		Not only are vampire bats unusual because they run, but also in the way that they power their gait.
		Riskin explains, "The vampire bat is good on the ground because when you feed on the hoof of an animal that weighs 14,000 times more than you do, it's dangerous." Also, there are and always have been a variety of predators in the Western Hemisphere environment.
		"Vampire bats in Latin America are good on the ground because it's a very dangerous place, and bats in New Zealand are good on the ground because it's a very safe place," Riskin says.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/March05/Riskin.bats.snd.html (760 words)

	Animal Fact Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Unlike most bats, the legs of the common vampire bat are very strong, enabling this bat to easily crawl, hop and jump.
		Vampire bat populations are healthy throughout their range.
		Vampire bat populations soared and their range expanded, as cattle are easy targets.
	www.zoo.org /educate/fact_sheets/night/vmp_bat.html (1164 words)

	Vampire Bats: Animal Information, Pictures, Map--National Geographic Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These bats are so light and agile that they are sometimes able to drink blood from an animal for more than 30 minutes without waking it up.
		Vampire bats have special adaptations to help them with their unique feeding needs.
		In fact, one researcher reported that he had vampire bats that would come to him when he called their names.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /kids/creature_feature/0110/bats2.html (345 words)

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