Discover Magazine - Vampire Bat's Diet

[826san]

infact vampire bats teeth are to small to eat anything so it finds blood like our blood that is warm blooded easy to eat and to get.Do some body agree.

[Murder0redruM]

all the videos i seen of vampire bats, the victim never seems to react to the bite, can they not feel it?

[themisterrandomshow]

@Murder0redruM actually, their teeth are so sharp that they can't.

[GypsySilver]

@Murder0redruM Vampire bat saliva has an anaesthetic quality to it, which is why it licks the skin before biting, to numb the area. It's saliva also has anticoagulants in it to inhibit blood clotting.

Their teeth are special too. Their upper incisors lack enamel, which keeps them permanently razor sharp, and if there's fur on the skin of the host, the vampire bat uses its canine and cheek teeth like a barber's blades to shave away the hairs! Strange but true!

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[sangravore]

pretty sure that bat was lapping blood from the cow's ass.

[munchchewy0]

smeagol with wings!

[Grimfate013]

Great a advertisement for pop tarts and the a bat drinking blood WOW their going to sell a lot of pop tarts

[meabu123]

so fascinating...but what name came first?

Vampire thus Vampire Bat

or Vampire Bat thus Vampire?

[AngelEater0001]

@meabu123 i think the name "vampire came first and because this bat sucks blood, they named it after a creature that sucks blood-vampire

[robotpanda77]

If I was that cow I would be pissed.

[icecream5212]

the cow doesnt even care

[Foxface3]

lick its fur dude lol

[iamarabianprince]

amazing creature

[bo7monphuquoc]

the bat has gone hi-tech eh, it has equipted its nose with a heat sensing device then the cow's best part would be the butt :)

[AEmc2]

gross!

[d3athbRinger]

bats are awsome +cute and they do no harm not even to those cows the only problem is if a human is bitten they will bleed for a lot longer than if it wer just a normal cut cause of wat the bat does to the blood pretty cool stuff

[GhostTwiztid]

its that crazy saliva, keeps the blood from clotting

[1984IcameandIstayed]

My neighbor could lovingly cradle a bat in his hands. Could never understand why he could cradle these rodents with wings.

[PikaJutsu]

Because they're just animals and they're cute in their own little way... I do like bats, they're very interesting animals.

[Titan5Omega]

k thats gross

[poor500]

yum but poor thing

[Naruto52525]

its adorable lol

[4nne8onney]

I was gipped, that looks nothing like Tom Cruise

[maximoms66]

does it do the same on humans ?

[MohammedAsmahiel]

no it doesn't usually--most bat facts are false, they are actually amazing creatures

[Naruto52525]

wow whaddya know this got me intrested so ive been reading upa nd if a bat feeds on a human (which is rare in itself) and has active rabies its possible to pass it on, i stand corrected lol

[c0linaf]

i find bats fascinating and it kinda looks like stop motion when its walking around the cow (even though it isn't)

[residenteviladict]

ddaammnn

[TheBlueFalconX]

So friggen cool. I knew about this but not that these bats were so amazing at the ninja class.

[mayonater69]

sweeeet