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William Shakespeare 's ' Vampire Bat '

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Final Assignment Part 2 by Brandy Mearnic

Vampire Bat

The vampire bat also comes from a Subfamily called desmodontinae. There are three different types of bat species: The common vampire bat, hairy legged vampire bat and white winged vampire bat. These three different species are mostly native to the New World, but can be found in parts of Mexico and Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

Their main source of food is blood. Instead of sucking the blood to feed on they make a small cut with their teeth and then lick up the blood from the fresh wound. While feeding, they can feed for up to 30 minutes without waking the animal they are feeding on up.

They have a short muzzle and instead of a nose leaf, they have exposed (or naked) pads with u-shaped grooves at the tip of the nose. The common vampire bat has thermoreceptors that help the bat to locate areas where the blood flows close in it 's prey. Vampire bats have small ears and very short tail. The front teeth of a vampire bat are designed for cutting and the back teeth are smaller than other bats. A bat 's brain processes sound and can detect breathing sounds of other animals sleeping. This part of the brain is called the inferior colliculus. Mostly all bats have lost the ability to walk on the ground, but there are some that still run while on the ground. Their wings are much more powerful than their legs, though.

Bats live in colonies is complete, dark places such as caves, wells, trees and some buildings. The number of

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