Vaccinating vampire bats against rabies can help prevent the spread of the disease to livestock and humans. NPR's Scott Simon talks with epidemiologist Tonie Rocke about a new way to vaccinate bats.

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the animals on tiny treadmills.

Unlike other bat species, vampire bats are very good at running along the ground. So, they figured they could put bats in treadmills that measure their oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output to ...

Watch Vampire Bats Run on a Tiny Treadmill to Shed Light on Their Blood-Fueled Metabolism In a rare technique among mammals, the bats burn proteins from blood, rather than carbs or fat, to power ...

Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal secrets of the special metabolism fueling them from blood consumed only minutes before. This is peculiar since in most animals, including ...

And, unlike most bats, vampire bats are capable runners, meaning we could study their metabolism within a small treadmill rather than a flight tunnel.

Scientists put the bloodsucking mammals on a treadmill to understand how they get the energy to chase down their next meal. Researchers tracked how vampire bats processed their blood meals as they ...

Experiments with vampire bats running on treadmills have revealed they have a highly unusual method of getting energy from protein, due to their specialised diet. Most mammals get the bulk of ...

How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy They pull off a trick previously thought unique to a few insects ...

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. The common vampire ...

For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches. Many are also familiar ...

Today is both Halloween and the last day of Bat Week, which makes it the perfect day to admire beautiful bats like these four from Bats: An Illustrated Guide to All Species! 1. Hairy-legged ...