Vampire bat facts. October 30, 2012. Now those bats sound scary . . . and they do exist, but only in Latin America. Vampire bats are the only mammals that live entirely on blood — usually that ...

The vampire bat feeds mainly on the blood of cattle, horses, and wild mammals such as deer and peccaries. It seldom bites humans. When feeding it chooses to land near a hairless area of thin skin -- ...

But the vampire bat itself is hardly the agent of evil its association with Dracula would suggest. Here are seven things you may not have known about these creatures. Not all bats are vampire bats.

"Of the 1200 or so species of bats, vampire bats are among the very few that can move quickly on the ground." ... A running vampire bat is weird and awesome. June 21, 2013. By Sarah Kliff.

The blood-sucking vampire bat may have a lesson to teach us on what sharing is all about. If you don't believe this, Gerald Carter can prove it with his new research paper, "Social Bet-Hedging in ...

Figure 1: A vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, using a running gait at 0.61 m s −1 with a stride frequency of 4.71 Hz. The walking vampire bats used stride frequencies that were comparable to those ...

Vampire bats are pretty unusual creatures, even by bat standards. They’re the only mammals to dine exclusively on blood, which means their bodies have needed to adapt in many ways to this ...

5. Early works of vampire literature were not known for their exciting titles. The first literary vampire in the Western tradition appears in a German poem from 1748 called Der Vampire (‘The ...

Associated PressJack Palance, pictured in 1992, was the only film actor really named "Vlad" to play Dracula. Did you know . . . ... that before German director F.W. Murnau killed the vampire ...

This fact sheet attempts to dispel the fears and answer some of the questions most often asked of the National Museum of Natural History by presenting some general facts about the biology and natural ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Vampire Bat Workout: Sure, They Want Your Blood. But They Have a Thirst for Exercise Too. .