Vampire bats can only survive for a few days if they are unsuccessful in hunting for blood to eat. To prevent a fellow bat from starving, vampire bats will sometimes share their most recent blood ...

Microbes may be transferred between vampire bats when they lick and groom one another and share regurgitated food – and this means the bats living together end up with a common “social ...

Vampire bats live in female-dominated groups, and they appear to groom and share food with each other equally without regard for social status. Unlike the “strict, obvious female dominance ...

when vampire bats are feeling sick, they call out 30 percent less frequently than when they are healthy. And whether intentional or not, it should have a beneficial side effect of limiting the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire bats to 26 other bat ...