It S A Vampire Bat

Introduces vampire bats, describing their physical features, life in colonies, and how they use their sensors to find their prey.

Yikes, it's a vampire bat! Find out if vampire bats are really the stuff of legends or just another creature of the night in this carefully leveled text. High-quality photographs get readers up close and personal with these furry flying creatures, while critical thinking questions and a photo glossary introduce kids to nonfiction texts.

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.

Describes vampire bats, their habits, where they live, their hunting methods, and how they exist in the world of people.

An introduction to the vampire bat, best know for its diet which consists fo the blood of other animals.

No bat so fires our imagination or is more renowned than the common vampire bat of tropical America. Its singular diet of warm blood, its stealthy nighttime attacks, & its capability of transmitting deadly diseases all create an aura of fear & fascination. Vampire bats feed only at night. A vampire bat¿s saliva contains a powerful set of chemicals that prevent its host¿s blood from clotting. A vampire bat consumes at least 40-60% of its weight in blood at one feeding. Vampire bats are expanding their range northward & are close to Texas & Arizona. Because of human activity, they are thriving! Brown has gathered & distilled an enormous amount of factual information, while sifting through the mythology of the ¿vampyre¿ in both the Old & New Worlds. 50 illustrations.

A major problem with vampire bats is that whatever information exists is scattered throughout the literature or is not recorded. There are some excellent books on the ecology and biology of bats with very little on vampire bats. This volume fills that gap to provide an in-depth presentation of these unique animals.