Common vampire bats display a high amount of cooperative behavior.

The common vampire bat may also have an infrared sensor on its nose.

The three species resemble each other, but the common vampire bat can be distinguished by its longer thumb.

A common vampire bat begins to expel urine within two minutes of feeding.

Common vampire bats exhibit sexual dimorphism in which females are bigger than males.

The common vampire bat mainly feeds on the blood of livestock, approaching its prey at night while they are sleeping.

The common vampire bat feeds primarily on mammalian blood, particularly that of livestock such as cattle and horses.

Though not as agile on the ground as the common vampire bat, they are quite proficient at climbing branches.

The common vampire bat, which is found in Central and South America, is capable of faster movement, too.

However, the common vampire bat feeds on mammalian blood more than the other two species, which primarily feed on that of birds.

Common vampire bats have good eyesight.

The common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus has specialized infrared sensors in its nose-leaf.

Because it feeds on livestock and is a carrier of rabies, the common vampire bat is considered a pest.

Once the common vampire bat locates a host, such as a sleeping mammal, it lands and approaches it on the ground.

White-winged vampires are much more docile than common vampire bats and are also extremely vocal in the audible range.

Not surprisingly, they do not perform the flight-initiating jumps that characterize the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus.

The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a small, leaf-nosed bat native to the Americas.

Vampire Bats - This darkened exhibit features the Common Vampire Bat.

The leaf-shaped nose is characteristic of the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus).

In hairy-legged vampire bats, the hierarchical segregation of nonresident males is less strict than in common vampire bats.

The common vampire bat typically consumes the blood of mammals, while the hairy-legged and white-winged vampires feed on the blood of birds.

Desmodus, D. archaeodaptes (Common Vampire Bat)

ARKive - images and movies of the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus)

The common vampire bat was first classified as Phyllostoma rotundum by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1810.

The common vampire bat is short-haired, with silver-gray fur on its undersides, sharply demarcated from the darker fur on its back.

Sahumerio: or by fumigation, also to preserve cattle from the vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

Not surprisingly, they do not perform the flight-initiating jumps that characterize the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus.

The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a small, leaf-nosed bat native to the Americas.

The leaf-shaped nose is characteristic of the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus).

ARKive - images and movies of the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus)

As early as in 1932, the saliva of the vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) was known to lead to interference with the haemostatic mechanism of the host animal.

It is often found in caves with the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), but it is a solitary bat and does not form groups like Desmodus.

Wimsatt W. A., Trapido H. Reproduction and the female reproductive cycle in the tropical american vampire bat, desmodus rotundus murinus.

Apitz-Castro, R., et al. "Purification and partial characterization of draculin, the anticoagulant factor present in the saliva of vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus)."

The common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, also has specialized thermoreceptors on its nose, which aid the animal in locating areas where the blood flows close to the skin of its prey.

This form is caused by Trypanosoma evansi (Steel 1885) Balbiani 1888, and is transmitted by horse-flies, and also by the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, in South-America.

The t-PA of saliva from the vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is homologous with human t-PA but lacks the second kringle domain and the plasmin cleavage site for conversion to a two-chain form.

He then soon proved that various species of bat, including fruit-eating bats and particularly the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), with or without artificial infection or the external symptoms of rabies, are capable of transmitting rabies for an extended period of time.