Horrifying Blood Sucking Vampire Bats
Published by Facts about vampire bats. Explains everything about vampire bat often associated with the mythical Count Dracula.
Desmodus Rotundus commonly known as Vampire Bats are bats that depend on blood as their food source. Vampire bats are small mammals weighed about 28 grams that have upper incisor teeth shaped like canines which make a 7mm long and 8mm deep cut. Their teeth are designed amazingly for a special purpose to make an incision for removing blood painlessly which they consume about an average of 20-25 mL blood each day. Saliva of vampire bats contains a substance called draculin. Proven by scientists, its saliva are effective in keeping blood from clotting than any other medicines.
Vampire bats have small ears, short muzzle, and short tail membrane. They have no nose leaf instead having U-shaped grooves. Specialized thermo receptors are present on its nose which serves as a locator where the flow of the blood closes to the skin of its prey. Vampire bats are rabies-carrier but the risk of infection is less to human.
Most vampire bats live in colonies can be found in dark areas such as caves, eaves, buildings, old wells, and in hollow trees. Each vampire bat needs a blood meal at least once every few days but if a bat does not able to get blood meal it can contact another bat to induce a food. Exchanging of foods on their mouth is known as “Blood Transfusion”. They can live up to 9 years.
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39 Responses to “Horrifying Blood Sucking Vampire Bats”
On December 6, 2009 at 3:16 pm
woooo,very scarry and well written info,Thanks
On December 6, 2009 at 3:38 pm
This was very interesting, Jayson. Welcome to Triond and I am sure you will get many friends very soon. I enjoyed reading this article of yours about bats and have learned new things from it.
Kind regards, ma buhai?? Mahal kita??? These are words I learned from my friends who are from the Philipines but I don’t know if I spelled one of them right?
On December 6, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Scary little creatures.
On December 7, 2009 at 12:26 am
These creatures may be scary but cute.
On December 7, 2009 at 8:22 am
Would not want to run into a vampire bat.
On December 7, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I have to say that I like bats, I find them cute.
On December 7, 2009 at 7:38 pm
they are so cute!
On December 8, 2009 at 12:23 am
Oh, never heard of this giant mosquitoes before. Thanks for sharing,kabayan.
On December 8, 2009 at 7:59 am
horrible post….great information
On December 8, 2009 at 10:13 am
Very good information
On December 8, 2009 at 5:58 pm
WHILE INFORMATIVE, YOUR ARTICLE LEFT ME WITH MORE QUESTIONS. LIKE WHY IS IT LESS LIKELY FOR HUMANS TO GET RABIES FROM A VAMPIRE BAT, AND ALTHOUGH THEY LIVE OFF BLOOD, WHERE DO THESE BATS EAT. WHAT IS THERE MAIN FOOD SOURCE. WHAT EXACTLY IS INVOLVED WITH THIS BLOOD TRANSFUSION PROCESS. WHEN DOING A FACTUAL ARTICLE MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE NO QUESTION UNANSWERED.
On December 8, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Neither Vampire bats or any other of the 1150 species of bats are carriers of rabies. A “carrier” is one that has the disease but does not get sick from it. All mammals can get rabies and all of them will died from it.
On December 9, 2009 at 3:41 am
Interesting. Very informative. Thanks for the share !
On December 9, 2009 at 7:50 am
Your article was very informative and interesting at the same time, keep it up!
On December 9, 2009 at 7:54 am
Good article I liked the pictures too, I will follow your work as you asked no problem. I’ve not been on Triond very long myself only since September. Only tip I can give you is if someone leaves a comment thats offensive to you, just ignore it I made a mistake of answering back the critisim! got my butt kicked [verbally] by several people a lesson learned enjoy the compliments and ignore the negative people.
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On December 10, 2009 at 5:20 am
Nice article, lovely facts.
On December 10, 2009 at 7:06 am
Thanks for the compliments guys..
On December 10, 2009 at 10:42 am
reminds me of the twilight saga which my girlfriend is addicted into..but the vampires there are not realistic for me.
On December 11, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Thanks for sharing – wrote a bit of a different article about bats – but yours was very informative. Keep it up!
On December 11, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Thanks for this very informative article. Keep it up! Two thumbs up..
On December 11, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I love the way you write this article. Very informative.
On December 11, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Scary little creatures. Nicely written article. You must be awarded for this. Thank you for writing!
On December 11, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I love your article. Good job. Hope you can publish more.Triond must award you for this.
On December 12, 2009 at 7:31 am
Thanks guys..
On December 12, 2009 at 11:33 am
I definitely Love this article..
On December 13, 2009 at 11:01 am
it makes me scared…i don’t want bats anywayz..well written, very informative..
On December 13, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Thanks ladydryle..
On December 14, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Thank you..
On December 16, 2009 at 12:51 am
very nice article which I find very interesting and informative.
On December 16, 2009 at 10:38 am
very scary, and I have the experience of bat flew in to my bedroom, landed on top of my bag and I thought it was a toy at first, it flew away before it did any harm..but that was a small one..
On December 18, 2009 at 10:52 am
Hahah..that was a funny experienced Starpisces..
On December 20, 2009 at 10:28 am
ooh…bats are really creepy creatures, notice that in every scary movies bats were never absent… they symbolizes evil for me…
On December 21, 2009 at 4:11 am
nice poem.. i really like it. Thanks to you.
On December 24, 2009 at 8:50 am
great post.. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
On December 24, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Thanks everyone!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
- jaysonv
On December 26, 2009 at 10:18 pm
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND ADVANCE HAPPY NEW YEAR TRIONDERS!!!
On December 28, 2009 at 3:54 am
keep on publishing interesting articles guys! Thanks.. Happy New Year everyone!
On December 29, 2009 at 1:17 am
Rarrr, a bloodcurdling bats, awooo…
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