Vampire bat pup receives regurgitated food from an unrelated female bat. Credit: Gerry Carter lab surveillance camera video. During a study with captive vampire bats at the Smithsonian Tropical ...

A female vampire bat has adopted an orphaned baby bat and begun nursing it, after creating a close social bond with the baby’s mother before she died. Although female bats live in “maternity ...

Related video above: Jawbone of 100,000-year-old giant vampire bat unearthed Baby bats babble just like human infants when learning to communicate, a new study has found.

Female vampire bats form strong grooming and food-sharing relationships, mostly with kin but also with non-kin, according to Razik.

Vampire bats. They strike fear in even the manliest of men. Mention them, and people walk around with shoulders hiked up to cover their necks.

The death of a vampire bat 19 days after giving birth presented scientists studying the animals in 2019 with an unexpected chance to observe a rare event: a female bat's adoption of an unrelated baby.

Baby Vampire Bat Adopted by Mom’s Best Friend The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other’s baby.

Related video above: Jawbone of 100,000-year-old giant vampire bat unearthed Baby bats babble just like human infants when learning to communicate, a new study has found.

The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other's baby.

The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other's baby.