Latin America’s vampire bats groom one another, reveal primate-like behavior
Vampire bat (Photo: Ltshears – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons)
Vampire bats, which live in Latin America and feed at night on the blood of large animals like cows and deer, are surprisingly brainy and social creatures, engaging in certain behaviors such as social grooming that aren’t common outside of primates. Gerald Carter, who studies vampires bats at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, wanted…
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