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.

Vampire bats are small, neotropical bats. They weigh about 30 grams, and they drink nothing but blood. The legend of the vampire actually came first before the bat was discovered by Europeans.

Vampire bats are, in fact, the soul of cooperation, with a complex social structure. Like good toddlers, they have learned to share. For the bats their lives depend on it.

On 29th August 2019, Lilith, a vampire bat housed in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, died, leaving behind a pup. Curiously, for Gerry Carter and Imran Razik — the ...

Blood is low in calories yet rich in iron. Vampire bats must drink up to 1.4 times their own weight during each feed, and, in doing so, ingest a potentially harmful amount of iron.

The bats were held for up to 18 hours to make sure their last meal was fully digested. The vampire bats were fed with cow's ...

These suckers are fast. Vampire bats hit the treadmills in a unique study in which scientists tested how the creatures metabolized the blood they feed on, according to a newly published study. The … ...

Vampire bats in Peru sometimes prey on penguin chicks, but the adult penguins are ready to fight back—with a little help from dirt and even poop. ANIMALS; The real-life rivalry of bats and penguins.

After the vampire bats ate, they were each placed on a miniature treadmill. According to Dr. Welch, the dexterous bats initially used their thumbs to hook into crevices to avoid the moving belt.

For vampire bats, however, it turns out a heaping bowl of amino acid-rich blood will suffice. Researchers from the University of Toronto captured several vampire bats and taught them to run on a ...