Palatable versus poisonous:
Eavesdropping bats must learn to
identify which prey is safe to eat
Real
vampires!
The Vampire Bat
October 21, 2022
Celebrating International Bat Week, come learn about real vampires!
Gerald Carter talks about the natural history and social lives of the blood-feeding vampire bat. As an Assistant Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), he studies their cooperation and social bonding and has spent more than a decade studying their behavioral and cognitive ecology.