Author Archives: Gerry Carter

About Gerry Carter

I study the behavioral, sensory, and social ecology of vampire bats. http://socialbat.org.

New grad student: Bridget Brown

Posted on October 2, 2018

My entire childhood up until I graduated high school, I was confident that I would be working with animals as a veterinarian. However, after volunteering at small animal clinics for two years, I realized that I no longer desired to … Continue reading →

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Updates: June 2018

Posted on June 29, 2018

A few updates: I’m delighted to announce my first three graduate students at Ohio State University: Bridget Brown, Theresa Chen, and Imran Razik. Read more about them here.  Theresa and Imran have both won competitive fellowships from the university. We published … Continue reading →

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Fieldwork: Lamanai, Belize

Posted on April 28, 2018

This week I’ve been working with a team of bat researchers in Lamanai, Belize (an archaeological site of the ruins of a Mayan city).  We are collecting data for a study on the effects of sickness behavior on social associations … Continue reading →

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Some pics from Panama and Germany

Posted on April 3, 2018

I’m finally seeing bats flying around here at dusk in Germany, and for the first time I’m missing Panama a bit. But it’s not that I don’t like Panama, I just love where I am now! I’ve been trying to make … Continue reading →

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Tracking our vampire bats after they are released into the wild

Posted on September 25, 2017

After almost 2 years of cooperation experiments in captivity, we are now attempting to monitor the social relationships of our vampire bats as we release them back into the wild. We are hoping to track bat-bat and bat-cow encounters. To … Continue reading →

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Final month in Panama

Posted on September 11, 2017

I have only one month left in Panama! We wrapped up data collection for our captive experiments, and we are now shifting to fieldwork. On June 28, I hired our last research intern for Panama, Darija Josic (MSc in Biology), … Continue reading →

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Meeting with the vampire bat control team, and footage of a white-winged vampire bat

Posted on September 8, 2017

On September 1, bat workers with the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA) in Colon visited the Gamboa Bat Lab. We had an amazing and informative meeting and shared experiences working with vampires and other bats. We are hoping to develop … Continue reading →

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