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Many people know that vampire bats drink blood. But most people dont know thats the only food adult vampire bats take in. In addition to milk, mother bats feed their babies regurgitated blood when theyre old enough! Readers learn creepybut truefacts like these throughout the main content. Full-color photographs take readers through the night with vampire bats on the hunt, including a look at a bat actually drinking from livestock! Fact boxes enhance the main contents focus on this incredible adaptation, adding information about vampire bats life-span, size, and more.
Introduces the world of blood-sucking animals, examining how and why they suck blood, and discussing historical and modern medical uses for such creatures as leeches and vampire bats.
Examines animals that feed on blood, including mosquitoes, vampire bats, lice, leeches, lampreys, and fleas, and looks at their anatomy, behavior, and interactions with people.
Zoologist David Brown has sifted through the mythology of the vampyre to present a picture of the vampire bat in true-life form. For both bat-specialists and non-biologists alike.
Many people know that vampire bats drink blood. But most people dont know thats the only food adult vampire bats take in. In addition to milk, mother bats feed their babies regurgitated blood when theyre old enough! Readers learn creepybut truefacts like these throughout the main content. Full-color photographs take readers through the night with vampire bats on the hunt, including a look at a bat actually drinking from livestock! Fact boxes enhance the main contents focus on this incredible adaptation, adding information about vampire bats life-span, size, and more.
Vampire Bats and Other Creatures of the Night by Philip Steele Pdf
Presents information on nocturnal animals and how they survive in the world of twilight and shadow. Includes a quiz at the end of each chapter and a glossary.
Vampire Bats After Dark by Heather Moore Niver Pdf
Hunting by moonlight, the unique vampire bat is the only known mammal in the world that feeds exclusively on blood! How do these Central and South American bats feed, communicate, reproduce, and roost? Full-page photos share the lives of these nocturnal creatures. Fun facts showcase the vampire bat?s unique adaptations and Words to Know introduce readers to new vocabulary.
“A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Bill Schutt turns whatever fear and disgust you may feel towards nature’s vampires into a healthy respect for evolution’s power to fill every conceivable niche.”—Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from bats to bedbugs, are as deserving of our curiosity as warmer and fuzzier species are—and that many of them are even worthy of conservation. Examining the substance that sustains nature’s vampires, Schutt reveals just how little we actually knew about blood until well into the twentieth century. We revisit George Washington on his deathbed to learn how ideas about blood and the supposedly therapeutic value of bloodletting, first devised by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, survived into relatively modern times. Dark Banquet details our dangerous and sometimes deadly encounters with ticks, chiggers, and mites (the latter implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder—currently devastating honey bees worldwide). Then there are the truly weird—vampire finches. And if you thought piranha were scary, some people believe that the candiru (or willy fish) is the best reason to avoid swimming in the Amazon. Enlightening and alarming, Dark Banquet peers into a part of the natural world to which we are, through our blood, inextricably linked.
The Really Fearsome Blood-loving Vampire Bat by Theresa Greenaway Pdf
What is it about vampire bats that make us squeal and shudder? This book is one of a series that aims to show creatures as they really are - sometimes frightening, but never completely evil. Facts are discovered and myths exposed. The text shows why vampire bats look and behave as they do and shows that even the smallest and least appealing creature has a role in maintaining a balanced ecosystem.
"Certain species of bats get their chilling name from a legendary monster, the vampire, and like these revolting fantasy creatures, these bats really do drink the blood of animals. Luckily, vampire bats don't harm people; they're much more interested in the blood of livestock and forest animals. Their bites are so small that they're often undetected by the animals they feed on. Readers will be fascinated by these eerie creatures as well as the awesome photographs of vampire bats in the wild."
We have an innate fascination with the world of hunters, parasites and nasty critters lurking to inflict themselves upon us. Bloodsuckers highlights a subject that both fascinates and horrifies readers, approaching it in an informative and entertaining way. From leeches and mosquitoes to vampire bats and lampreys (bloodsucking fish), itrsquo;s all here. This remarkable book will resonate strongly with all those who have a fascination with the dangerous, the grotesque and the plain icky.
