Cattleman Francisco Oliva was on a round-up–of vampire bats. After a swarm of the blood-slurping creatures dive-bombed his herd and drank their fill one recent night, he corralled several dozen ...

Vampire bats seek out animals that are asleep and use their ability to sense heat to figure out the best place to take a bite. That bite is risky. If it hurts, the animal might fight back.

Vampire bats use their wings to run. Other bats use their wings to swim, store things, or catch babies when they're born. Watch vampire bats run on a treadmill.

Vampire bats are happy to share their meals with a friend, ... these bloodsuckers tend to meet up with roost mates they share close bonds with.

Vampire bats, a highly social species, will continue interacting with each other even when they're feeling sick. Josh More. Infections don’t just wreak havoc on the body: They put a serious ...

Fossils found in California, Florida, Texas and Arizona (among other states), dating back to approximately 5,000 to 30,000 years ago, indicate that the vampire bat once lived in the U.S. when it ...

A female vampire bat has adopted an orphaned baby bat and begun nursing it, after creating a close social bond with the baby’s mother before she died.. Although female bats live in “maternity ...

When vampire bats feel sick, they still engage in prosocial acts such as sharing food with nonrelatives. But they cut back on grooming anyone other than their closest kin.

The bats latch on to prey, and make a tiny, painless incision with their teeth, to lick the blood up with their tongues, sometimes ingesting up to four times their body mass in a single meal.

Vampire bats use their thumbs, wrists, and legs to run more than three feet per second to sneak up on prey such as horses, pigs, goats, capybaras, cows, and other mammals.