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Common Vampire Bat
Desmodus rotundus
The common vampire bat is one of only three mammals that live entirely on blood, and nearly everything about it is shaped by that diet. Heat sensors in its leaf-shaped nose find where blood runs closest to the skin, and it does not suck: it opens a shallow groove with razor-edge…
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- Vampire bats can detect their prey's blood vessels using special heat sensors on their noses.
- Vampire bats have infrared sensors on the nose that locate where blood runs closest to the skin. They do not suck — they lap, while an anticoagulant called draculin keeps the wound open. They starve after just two missed nights, so they regurgitate blood for hungry roost-mates — and remember who repaid them. Unlike most bats, they can run and bound along the ground.
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