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    BAT RESEARCH NEWS

    Volume 52: Number 3

    Fall 2011

    Reprint
    Renan de Frana Souza, Camila SantAnna, Mariana V.P. Aguiar, Andr C.
    Siqueira, Davi C. Tavares, Rafael S. Laurindo, and Roberto Leonan M. Novaes.
    2011. Opportunistic consumption of blood from Pallass long-tongued bat,
    Glossophaga soricina, by the common vampire, Desmodus rotundus, in Brazil.
    Bat Research News, 52(3): 3940.

    Copyright 2011 Bat Research News. All rights reserved. This material is protected by
    copyright and may not be reproduced, transmitted, posted on a Web site or a listserve, or
    disseminated in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the Publisher,
    Dr. Margaret A. Griffiths. The article is for individual use only.

    Bat Research News is ISSN # 0005-6227.


    This issue printed September 25, 2011.

    Opportunistic Consumption of Blood from Pallass Long-tongued Bat, Glossophaga


    soricina, by the Common Vampire, Desmodus rotundus, in Brazil
    Renan de Frana Souza1,2, Camila SantAnna3, Mariana V.P. Aguiar1, Andr C. Siqueira1, Davi
    C. Tavares1, Rafael S. Laurindo1, and Roberto Leonan M. Novaes1,3
    1

    Ncleo de Pesquisas Integradas, Instituto Sul Mineiro de Estudos e Conservao da Natureza.


    Fazenda Lagoa, rea rural, CP 72, CEP 37115-000, Monte Belo, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
    2
    Laboratrio de Ecologia e Conservao de Populaes, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto
    de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, Sala A027, Ilha do Fundo, CEP: 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
    3
    Laboratrio de Mastozoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, IBIO, Universidade Federal do
    Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Pasteur, 458, Sala 501, Urca, CEP: 22290-240, Rio de Janeiro,
    RJ, Brasil.
    E-mail: [email protected]

    Bats frequently are used as food by birds


    of prey (Twente, 1954; Escarlate-Tavares and
    Pessa, 2005) and snakes (Martins and
    Oliveira, 1998; Esbrard and Vrcibradic,
    2007) and occasionally consumed by felids,
    opossums, primates, rodents, and other bats
    (Wroe and Wroe, 1982; Gardner et al., 1991;
    Fischer et al., 1997; Souza et al., 1997;
    Fellers,
    2000).
    The
    opportunistic
    consumption of bats that are entangled in mist
    nets has been reported for many non-volant
    mammals, including canids, felids, and
    marsupials (Breviglieri and Pedro, 2010;
    Gazarini et al., 2008; Novaes et al., 2011;
    Patrcio-Costa et al., 2010; Rocha-Mendes
    and Bianconi, 2009), and for other bats
    (Oprea et al., 2006). However, there are no
    published observations of attacks by the
    common vampire, Desmodus rotundus, on
    another bat caught in a mist net.
    Between 17 and 21 July 2010, a survey of
    bats was carried out at Reserva Particular do
    Patrimnio
    Natural
    Fazenda
    Lagoa
    (212441.8S and 461553.7W), a preserve
    containing ca. 300 ha of Atlantic Forest, in
    southern Minas Gerais, Brazil. On 20 July
    2010, at 2036 hours, we observed a female
    Pallass long-tongued bat, Glossophaga
    soricina, in a mist net being attacked by a
    common vampire that was caught in the same

    net. The attack produced an open wound on


    the rostrum of the long-tongued bat, from
    which the vampire licked the blood. We also
    found puncture wounds in the left wing of the
    long-tongued bat, between the second and
    third digits.
    The common vampire consumes the blood
    of
    warm-blooded
    animals,
    especially
    medium- and large-sized mammals (Aguiar,
    2007; Greenhall et al., 1983). However, our
    observation is the first record of a vampire bat
    attacking another bat tangled in a mist net. It
    is doubtful, though, whether vampires
    commonly attack other bats under natural
    conditions, because most bats, especially
    small-bodied bats like the long-tongued bat,
    probably do not provide a useful volume of
    blood.
    Acknowledgments.We thank Maria
    Cristina Weyland Vieira and the team at
    Reserva Particular do Patrimnio Natural
    Fazenda Lagoa, for technical and logistical
    support; Mariana Pacheco Gomes dos Santos,
    for helping with the translation; and Zootech,
    for sponsoring our research.
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