Videos
Vampire bats in cave in Panama, filmed in high definition
Vampcam Timelapse
Vampcam Sample clip
Vampires feeding partners across a barrier
PhD fundraising video:
Vocal recognition in white-winged vampire bats:
Food sharing (1990, Trials of Life, BBC):
Food sharing behavior in common vampire bats
Food begging behavior in white-winged vampire bats
Vampire bat detects surveillance camera
Non-maternal grooming of a pup
Should we kill vampire bats?
A talk on my research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Do vampire bats have friends? (BBC)
Animal friendship talk by Lauren Brent (TED)
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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Gerald Carter
Uwe Schmidt
Not a great photo, but hard to get color photo of food sharing. Here’s more.
Uwe Schmidt
Diphylla ecaudata -Hairy-legged vampire bat, Gerry Carter
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For a great picture of a white-winged vampire bat, see this one by Dan Riskin.
Pictures of captive vampire bats by Rachel Moon:
Also, see Arkive.org.
Merlin Tuttle’s vampire bat photos
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.
