Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal ... This is peculiar since in most animals, including humans, physical activity is fueled by burning carbohydrates and fat, while amino ...

This makes the vampire bat a very unusual animal indeed, since most vertebrates rely primarily on the metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids for energy. But the ability does appear elsewhere in ...

Carnivorous bats, known collectively as false vampire bats because they don’t drink the blood of animals, as true vampire bats do, are found throughout the tropics, although in low numbers ...

In New York last week Death, as it must to all creatures, came to the Bronx Zoo’s female vampire bat, 16 weeks after Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars had brought her from Panama (TIME, Oct. 2).

Most mammals respond to the demands of exercise in the same way, by breaking down carbohydrates and stored lipids (fats) in ...

Vampire bats are the only mammals to feed entirely on blood and have tiny infra-red receptors in their nose leaf which can detect the most blood-rich veins on an animal, from up to 20 cms away.

Some animals rarely if ever interact with one ... altruism is a powerful demonstration of natural selection at work. Vampire bats (Figure 3) returning from an unsuccessful foraging bout will ...

Bats are an iconic symbol of Halloween and vampire bats in particular have earned themselves ... capable of powered flight and there are over 1,100 species of these winged animals. It's no surprise ...