1. FAQ
(All About Bats/Intro to Bats)

... vampires, eat only blood. How do vampire bats suck blood? Vampire bats do not actually suck blood. They lap it up like a dog drinking water from a bowl. To begin feeding, the bat first must prick the animal ...

2. The Founder Passes the Baton
(News/Latest News)

... casual vandalism that kills thousands, even tens of thousands, in single incidents. Many people really were convinced back then that all bats were vampires, rabid, blind and quite likely to become tangled ...

3. Bat Research Video Footage
(News/Latest News)

... A vampire bat will walk on the ground to sneak up on its victim. If its victim tries to get away, it can scramble in pursuit. Riskin found that if he put vampire bats on treadmills, they can walk like ...

4. Navigation/Migration
(All About Bats/Intro to Bats)

... its tail. At least a few tropical species are monogamous, sharing hunting and family duties. Vampire bats even adopt orphans, unusual for any wild animal. Bats are, for their size, the slowest reproducing ...

5. Behavior Patterns
(All About Bats/Intro to Bats)

... mice, and birds. Despite their notoriety, vampire bats make up only a small portion of all bats (there are only three species), and they live only in Latin America. With the exception of three species ...

6. Become A Founder's Circle Member
(Support BCI/Types of Donations)

... diverse collection of more than 70 bat species, including fishing bats, tent-making species, omnivorous and carnivorous bats, and all three species of vampire bats, plus some of the largest bats in the ...

7. 42160.pdf

...a bat that drinks her blood by night. Alas, Stoker did these reclusive creatures a disservice. There are indeed vampire bats, though they generally prefer cattle blood to that of people. But most of ...

8. BATSFall03az.pdf

A Very Special Mine W W W. B ATC O N . O R G FA L L 2 0 0 3 Baby Vampires BATS B A T C O N S E R VA T I O N I N T E R N A T I O N A L SecretBats s of Learning the Bat Conservation Intern a t i o ...

9. BATSSpring03.pdf

Bats of Israel W W W. B ATC O N . O R G Tracking Woodland Bats SPRING 2003 Vampire's Gift BATS B A T C O N S E R VA T I O N I N T E R N A T I O N A L What's in a Name? 180 N E W S PE C I E S OF  ...

10. BATSSummer04.pdf

B ANISHING VAMPIRES in the jungle W W W. B AT C O N . O R G D UELING IN THE DARK SUMMER 2004 W IND E NERGY a new threat to bats BATS B AT C O N S E R VAT I O N I N T E R N AT I O N A L Sleeping in ...

11. bla.pdf

Bats of Latin America IMAGES Blank 1. Title 2. Pallas' long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) at Tricanthera flower (#0002103) 3. Tonatia sylvicola carrying a katydid 4. Artibeus cinereus carrying a

12. bmr.pdf

Bats: Myth and Reality (Copyright 1985, revised 1994, 2001) IMAGES 1. Blank 2. Title 3. Young Gambian epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus gambianus) portrait 4. Angolan rousette fruit bat (Rousettus ang

13. fof_bats101.pdf

Welcome to the Amazing World of Bats! Bat Conservation International is a nonprofit organization supported by 15,000 members in 65 countries. We work around the world to teach people the value of bats

14. fof_faq.pdf

...es such as fish, frogs, birds, or rodents. A few Latin American bats, the vampires, eat only blood. How do vampire bats suck blood? Vampire bats do not actually suck blood. They lap it up l ...

15. NABCPStrategicPlan.pdf

NABCP Strategic Plan Resource Issues, Goals, and Priority Actions Organization Management direction is described under three broad categories:1) Research and Monitoring 2) Education, and 3) Management

16. "Mark Trail" Comic Strip Takes Another Look at Bats
(BATS Magazine Archive)

... inadvertently reinforced negative concepts by focusing only on vampire bats. Many members let us know about it and also flooded the comic's creators with protests. Your letters do make a difference. ...

17. 106 Species and Counting: Bat Conservation Comes to Bolivia
(BATS Magazine Archive)

... towards bats, added to the significant problem of vampire bats feeding on cattle [BATS, Summer 1997], has led ranchers and other citizens to conduct campaigns in which they burn known roost sites and kill ...

18. A Binational Partnership to Protect Mexican Free-tailed Bats
(BATS Magazine Archive)

... attempting to solve livestock losses to vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) routinely destroy any bat cave they can find, regardless of what kind of bats live in it. The result has been a dramatic loss of ...

19. A Grassroots Education Campaign in Costa Rica
(BATS Magazine Archive)

... legitimate problems with vampire bats. Costa Rica has recorded 103 species of bats. At least half of these include fruit or nectar in their diets, making them important agents of seed dispersal and ...

20. A Rare Study of Nepalese Bats
(BATS Magazine Archive)

... all insect-eating bats, except for the greater false-vampire bat (Megaderma lyra), which has a decidedly varied carnivorous diet from insects to fish, frogs, birds and rodents. These bats face a wide ...