Where Do Vampire Bats Live?
“Hello I’m Dr. Christine Portfors. I’m an associate professor in the school of biological sciences at Washington State University Vancouver. And today we’re here to talk about where do vampire bats live. And yes, there are actually vampire bats. There’s three different types of vampire bats and they all live in Central and South America. So the three different species are very, very interesting. They have evolved to survive strictly by drinking blood, two of the species drink blood of birds and one of the species drinks blood of mammals. They don’t have to eat anything else and they also don’t have to drink water, they get all the nutrients they need from the blood of the animal. So many of you might be thinking whoa that’s pretty gross, but in fact it’s a very interesting system. So the vampire bats have evolved to be able to seek out blood. And so the way that they do this is that they use their echo location system, which means they’re sending out high frequencies of sound and liste
