Any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood.
Bat feeding on the blood (hematophagous) of large mammals such as horses or bovines.
1Without a doubt this is the secret of the vampire bat's ears.
2One of the Indians has been attacked by a big vampire bat!
3A vampire bat would just crawl all over him and, I don't know, nibble.
4I said apologetically, "You used a vampire bat in 'The Worm-Born of Malufrax.'"
5The virus was shown to be most closely related to a vampire bat rabies isolate.
6Yes, the great vampire bat does, but I have never heard of any others doing so.
7Common vampire bat populations distributed from Mexico to Argentina are important rabies reservoir hosts in Latin America.
8It was worse than a vampire bat!
9But that was a normal-sized vampire bat.
10R. P. Flint smiled and he said, I'm thinking maybe instead of a pterodactyl, a giant vampire bat.
11His skin hung loose on his great body, as though a vampire bat had drained it of its blood.
12As for me, while I was stationed in Panama during the war I was bitten by a vampire bat.
13I'll go back to the party before a vampire bat, or something equally pleasant, comes flying up to investigate.
14The phylogenetic analysis based on all available vampire bat-related N gene sequences showed both a geographical and a temporal structure.
15Derived from vampire bat saliva, it is designed to bust blood clots that block oxygen to the brain and cause strokes.
16A vampire bat cannot go for more than 36 hours without a meal, so regular food sharing can save some animals from starving.
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