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Common Vampire Bat
Desmodus rotundus (Common Vampire Bat · ナミチスイコウモリ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 It is known as a bat that transmits rabies, causing heavy losses to cattle farms in Central and South America.
- 💡 Its wingspan of about 40 cm is around one and a half 30 cm rulers (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Common Vampire Bat is a bat that feeds solely on the blood of other vertebrates and lives from Mexico to Chile and Argentina.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its back is grayish-brown and its belly paler, with a short, swollen-looking snout and no tail. Its saliva contains a substance (draculin) that keeps blood from clotting.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It prefers livestock most of all, though it also bites wild animals and humans. Females usually give birth to one young a year after a gestation of about 7 months, and the young feeds only on its mother's milk for the first month.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2015) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6510/21979045
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1004880
- • iucnredlist.org — 21979045
- • wikidata.org — Q300981
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Desmodus rotundus A Catenazzi.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Desmodus rotundus
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Roberto Díaz Sibaja · CC BY 3.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.