Jineth Berrío-Martínez (MSc in Biology) is a researcher from Colombia who arrived in April has been travelling around Panama to find additional wild vampire bat colonies. She is working on development of biting ability in young vampire bats. My research interests include tropical biology, population ecology, reproductive biology, evolution, and conservation. Early in my career … Continue reading Team Vampire, Spring 2017
Month: June 2017
Should we wipe out vampire bats?
Adam Cole from NPR visited our lab to shoot this great video short on human-vampire bat conflict. So "should we wipe out vampire bats?" No, even if we could, we shouldn't try, and frankly, nobody is actually suggesting exterminating vampire bats as a long-term solution. More on this topic in a previous post: Is killing … Continue reading Should we wipe out vampire bats?