NOUN
- any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood
How To Use vampire bat In A Sentence
- When a vampire bat bites an animal, its saliva introduces an anticlotting agent to keep the blood meal flowing.
- Perhaps the strangest dentition is found in the vampire bats, which have enlarged and bladelike incisors and canines, but molars extremely reduced in size and complexity.
- Plenty of animals behave as the forefathers of the eagle or the vampire bat might have done.
- When a vampire bat latches onto, say, a steer, it needs to keep the blood flowing from the puncture made by its teeth.
- This idea is based on the incorrect interpretations of early naturalists who attributed perceived behaviors of vampire bats in South America to that of bats in other countries.
- Real vampire bats prey on cattle and horses, take tiny quantities of blood and are dangerous only insofar as they sometimes carry bovine tuberculosis and rabies.
- Some scientists have suggested that the vampire bat developed its blood-sucking practice while it was an insect-eater, as most bats are.
- A vampire bat laps blood from a sleeping calf somewhere in the United States.
- In an attempt to dispel fears about bats, the teachers were told how the name ‘vampire bat’ is almost a misnomer for the three species of bats that do suck blood.
- The vampire bat and shrew have an extremely high protein intake, and the glomerular filtration rate GFR is not commensurate with the large urea load to be excreted. "The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me.
