Author Archives: Gerry Carter

About Gerry Carter

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

molecular evolution in vampire bats (video)

Posted on July 19, 2017

More information: Sears Lab  

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English translation of Park (1988) Dominance relationships in a colony of vampire bats. Korean Journal of Zoology.

Posted on July 18, 2017

Rachel Crisp is currently writing her masters thesis on dominance interactions in female vampire bats. Males have a clear dominance hierarchy in competition over roost territories, but do the female vampires have a dominance rank? If so, does it strongly … Continue reading →

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Updates (July 2017)

Posted on July 6, 2017

New timeline July 30- August 4, 2017: I’ll be at the Behavior 2017 Meeting in Portugal September 3, 2017: Team Vampire wraps up captive experiments and we begin our fieldwork led by Dr. Simon Ripperger. October 15, 2017: I leave Panama. … Continue reading →

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Some advice for grad students

Posted on July 5, 2017

With my new lab starting in Fall 2018, I am now interested in prospective graduate students and postdocs. More information on how to apply here. Below are some of my thoughts and advice on applying to graduate schools and being a … Continue reading →

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Team Vampire, Spring 2017

Posted on June 11, 2017

Katharina Eggert is from Germany and visited STRI from March until May 2017. She helped with a broad variety of projects including scoring cooperation in vampire bats, maintaining a system of monitoring bat roosts, and measuring exploration of novel objects … Continue reading →

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Should we wipe out vampire bats?

Posted on June 6, 2017

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 … Continue reading →

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Latest paper: social bet-hedging in vampire bats (and two other recent and related studies)

Posted on May 24, 2017

Our latest paper here.  Also some early press here. There are actually three recent papers on social networks and the benefits of network size in primates (by Laurent Brent and co-authors), songbirds (by Josh Firth and co-authors), and bats (by me … Continue reading →

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