Natural History Of Vampire Bats

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.

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.

Information on all aspects of bat biology, describing their special adaptations to flight and echolocation.

Seventeen contributions study, in an all encompassing manner, the different aspects of the natural history of vampire bats: their biology, economic importance, management, folklore, and gaps in our knowledge. The subject awaits renewed interest and funding--much of which diminished after their impact as a public health problem in Panama and Trinidad was brought under control in the 1930s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Enamored of bats ever since discovering a colony in a cave as a boy, Tuttle realized how sophisticated and intelligent bats are. He shares research showing that frog-eating bats can identify frogs by their calls, that vampire bats have a social order similar to that of primates, and that bats have remarkable memories. Bats also provide enormous benefits by eating crop pests, pollinating plants, and carrying seeds needed for reforestation; they are essential to a healthy planet.

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

An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.