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Vampire Bats

October 31, 2012 at 9:40 am
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By Billie Rubin, Hemoglobin's Catabolic Cousin, reporting from the labs of Stanford Blood Center

Vampire bats feed on the blood of other creatures, a hematophagy diet. There are three bat species whose only source of nutrition is blood: the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), the hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata), and the white-winged vampire bat.