Videos
Vampire bats in 2 minutes.
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Research Talk, March 2021
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Food sharing explained by David Attenborough (from Trials of Life (1990), BBC)
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Conference talks 2020
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Grooming and food sharing example (wild-caught vampire bats)
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Clips of food sharing in common vampire bats (captive-born vampire bats)
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Vampire bats in cave in Panama
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Video
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Captive colony timelapse (from Organization for Bat Conservation)
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Captive colony of vampire bats sample clip (from Organization for Bat Conservation)
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Vampires sharing food across a cage-wall barrier
More information: Carter et al. 2017. Food-sharing vampire bats are more nepotistic under conditions of perceived risk.
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Playback experiments showing vocal recognition in white-winged vampire bats:
More information:
- Carter et al. 2009. White-winged vampire bats (Diaemus youngi) exchange contact calls. https://doi.org/10.1139/Z09-051(PDF)
- Carter et al. 2008. Antiphonal calling allows individual discrimination in white-winged vampire bats. (PDF)
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White-winged vampire bats close-up
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Food begging behavior in white-winged vampire bats
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Vampire bat detects surveillance camera
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Non-maternal grooming of a pup
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Captive bat feeding on live animal for the first time.
More information: Berrío-Martínez et al. 2019. The role of past experience in the development of feeding behavior in common vampire bats.
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Isolation calls of a vampire bat pup and mother’s response
More information: Bohn et al. 2006 on correlated evolution between hearing and pup isolation calls in bats.
Should we kill vampire bats?
More information: https://streickerlab.com/research/
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Jerry Wilkinson talks about his PhD work on food-sharing in vampire bats. (1997, BBC)
More information: Food-sharing in vampire bats (Scientific American, 1990)
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Animal friendship talk by Lauren Brent (TED)
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Robert Seyfarth on baboons and the evolutionary origins of friendship (Annual Reviews)
Images
People often ask me for pictures of vampire bats. Many of the ones you find via Google Search are not great. These ones are by Uwe Schmidt, myself, and others and are available to use under a Creative Commons License (click on images for more information).
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Photos by Gerald Carter
Not a great photo, but hard to get color photo of food sharing. Here’s more.
I purchased the rights to these next 3 photos from Traer Scott and they can be used with my permission:
Photos by Uwe Schmidt
Hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata ) by Gerald Carter
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White-winged vampire bat (Diaemus youngi) by Gerald Carter
For a great picture of a white-winged vampire bat, see this one by Dan Riskin.
Here are photos by Rachel Moon:
Merlin Tuttle’s vampire bat photos are excellent.
Brock Fenton has an amazing collection of vampire bat photos (examples). These require his permission for use.
There are many good pics on iNaturalist that can be requested from the owner.
If you would like to share good-quality images for vampire bats under the same or similar license, you can send them to me and I will post them here. Or you can post a link in the comments below.
Drawings by Imran Razik (permission required for use)
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