Tag: Desmodus rotundus

Sepia-toned illustrative reconstruction of a brown vampire bat walking with folded wings on a small treadmill inside a transparent chamber, with air tubing leading to a gas analyser; a stylized depiction of the respirometry experiment, not a photograph or anatomical diagram.

How Do Vampire Bats Turn a Blood Meal into Running Fuel?

Vampire bats rapidly use amino acids from a blood meal during exercise. Labelled carbon in their breath reveals how—and what the experiment cannot establish.

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