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Vampire Bats Are Moving into the US and Scientists Worry They Could Spread a Fatal Zombie Deer Disease to Humans

A deer showing signs of CWD. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In 2022, Peter Larsen awoke in the Guyanese rainforest…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #ChronicWastingDisease #cwd #Deer #Desmodusrotundus #Ecology #Epidemiology #prions #Science #vampirebats #wildlifedisease
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/596244/

Vampire Bats Are Moving into the US and Scientists Worry They Could Spread a Fatal Zombie Deer Disease to Humans

A deer showing signs of CWD. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In 2022, Peter Larsen awoke in the Guyanese rainforest…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #ChronicWastingDisease #cwd #Deer #Desmodusrotundus #Ecology #Epidemiology #prions #Science #vampirebats #wildlifedisease
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/596244/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/445244/ Vampire Bats Are Moving into the US and Scientists Worry They Could Spread a Fatal Zombie Deer Disease to Humans #ChronicWastingDisease #CWD #deer #DesmodusRotundus #Ecology #Éire #Epidemiology #IE #Ireland #Prions #Science #VampireBats #Wildlife #WildlifeDisease

https://www.europesays.com/ie/249406/ Cows have BFF to whales can drown: 11 super weird animal facts you probably didn’t know #AnimalBehavior #CowFriendships #Éire #HummingbirdFlying #IE #Ireland #OctopusHearts #Science #VampireBats #WeirdAnimalFacts #Wildlife

https://www.europesays.com/uk/652618/ Cows have BFF to whales can drown: 11 super weird animal facts you probably didn’t know #AnimalBehavior #CowFriendships #HummingbirdFlying #OctopusHearts #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #VampireBats #WeirdAnimalFacts #wildlife

Bats have suffered too long from the ‘Dracula effect’

Perhaps it is not surprising that bats, which sleep by day, feed by night and swoop through the…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #dracula #echolocation #groomingrituals #high-frequencycalls #horseshoebats #naturalhistory #vampirebats
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/312224/

#VampireBats (2005) 🦇
Freshmen friends of the Tate University go to an underground party in the woods nearby the local cemetery. After a death, two students are arrested until a professor suggests that bats might be the real culprit.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬

Well, science has finally done it. They've finally put vampire bats on treadmills https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vampire-bats-treadmills-metabolism

#science #bats #VampireBats

Vampire #bats – look beyond the fangs and blood to see animal friendships and unique adaptations https://theconversation.com/vampire-bats-look-beyond-the-fangs-and-blood-to-see-animal-friendships-and-unique-adaptations-239980

"#VampireBats keep track of who feeds them and reciprocate – or not, if the other bat has not been helpful in the past. In doing so, they form complex social relationships maintained by low-cost social investments, such as cleaning and maintaining the fur of another animal, called #allogrooming, and higher-cost social investments, such as sharing food."

Vampire #bats – look beyond the fangs and blood to see animal friendships and unique adaptations https://theconversation.com/vampire-bats-look-beyond-the-fangs-and-blood-to-see-animal-friendships-and-unique-adaptations-239980

"#VampireBats keep track of who feeds them and reciprocate – or not, if the other bat has not been helpful in the past. In doing so, they form complex social relationships maintained by low-cost social investments, such as cleaning and maintaining the fur of another animal, called #allogrooming, and higher-cost social investments, such as sharing food."

Vampire #bats – look beyond the fangs and blood to see animal friendships and unique adaptations https://theconversation.com/vampire-bats-look-beyond-the-fangs-and-blood-to-see-animal-friendships-and-unique-adaptations-239980

"#VampireBats keep track of who feeds them and reciprocate – or not, if the other bat has not been helpful in the past. In doing so, they form complex social relationships maintained by low-cost social investments, such as cleaning and maintaining the fur of another animal, called #allogrooming, and higher-cost social investments, such as sharing food."

Vampire #bats – look beyond the fangs and blood to see animal friendships and unique adaptations https://theconversation.com/vampire-bats-look-beyond-the-fangs-and-blood-to-see-animal-friendships-and-unique-adaptations-239980

"#VampireBats keep track of who feeds them and reciprocate – or not, if the other bat has not been helpful in the past. In doing so, they form complex social relationships maintained by low-cost social investments, such as cleaning and maintaining the fur of another animal, called #allogrooming, and higher-cost social investments, such as sharing food."

Vampire #bats – look beyond the fangs and blood to see animal friendships and unique adaptations https://theconversation.com/vampire-bats-look-beyond-the-fangs-and-blood-to-see-animal-friendships-and-unique-adaptations-239980

"#VampireBats keep track of who feeds them and reciprocate – or not, if the other bat has not been helpful in the past. In doing so, they form complex social relationships maintained by low-cost social investments, such as cleaning and maintaining the fur of another animal, called #allogrooming, and higher-cost social investments, such as sharing food."

#VampireBats Are Actually Spreading Across The #US

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/vampire-bats-united-states.html

#halloween #funfact 🎃 🎃 🎃

#Draculin is a glycoprotein found in the saliva of #VampireBats specifically the #Desmodus #rotundus species

Further reading:

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Draculin?lang=en

I carved a vampire bat Jack-o-lantern this year. When my son saw my preliminary sketch he said that was exactly what he wanted on his Jack-o-lantern too. So now we have two!

Usually he draws a second design on a smaller pumpkin and I carve it, but this Hallowe’en it’s 🦇🦇🎃🎃

Happy Hallowe’en!

#carving #halloween #jackolantern #pumpkin #bats #vampireBats

I’ve been driving boy bats wild for years with my aloof and unobtainable looks and little furry body.

#vampire #vampireBats #undeadAndLovingIt

Vampire bats bond by grooming first to build trust before sharing blood - Enlarge / A vampire bat in flight with spread wings. The creatures build strong social bonds throug... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1661106 #animalbehavior #socialbonding #vampirebats #science #animals #biology