Dark Banquet - Bill Schutt [98]
2: CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT
In 1801, in Paraguay David E. Brown. Vampiro—The Vampire Bat in Fact and Fantasy (Silver City, N. Mex.: High-Lonesome Books, 1994), 15.
The vampire bat is often the cause Charles R. Darwin, A Naturalist’s Voyage (London: John Murray, 1886), 22.
This is an adaptation that comes in handy Uwe Schmidt, “Orientation and Sensory Functions in Desmodus rotundus,” in Natural History of Vampire Bats, ed. A. M. Greenhall and U. Schmidt, 150–52 (Boca Raton, Fl.: CRC Press, 1988).
A recent study suggests that Desmodus Udo Gröger and Lutz Wiegrebe, “Classification of Human Breathing Sounds by the Common Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, BMC Biology, 4, no. 18 (2006): 1–8.
For example, Muslim gypsies in the Balkans Matthew Bunson, The Vampire Encyclopedia (New York: Gramercy, 1993), 218, 278.
In Victorian England Jerry Hopkins, Extreme Cuisine (North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 2004), 269.
A boy by the name of Ernest Wicks Montague Summers, The Vampire: His Kith and Kin (London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner and Co., 1928), 46.
Vlad’s favorite torture method Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally, Dracula—A Biography of Vlad the Impaler (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1973), 76–77.
How did a murderous Romanian prince Ibid., 8–9.
Another hypothesis on the origin M. Brock Fenton, “Wounds and the Origin of Blood-Feeding in Bats, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 47 (1992): 161–71.
As Stephen J. Gould explained Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1989).
As an alternative to previous speculation William A. Schutt Jr., “The Chiropteran Hindlimb Morphology and the Origin of Blood Feeding in Bats, in Bat Biology and Conservation, ed. T. H. Kunz and P. Racey, 157–68. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1998).
3: SNAPPLE, ANYONE?
Had he dissected a specimen Thomas H. Huxley, “On the Structure of the Stomach in Desmodus Rufus,” Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 35 (1865), 386–90.
In an experiment using barium-laced cow blood G. Clay Mitchell and James R. Tigner, “The Route of Ingested Blood in the Vampire Bat,” Journal of Mammalogy 51, no. 4 (1970): 814–17.
According to a 1962 paper William A. Wimsatt and Anthony Geurriere, “Observations on the Feeding Capacities and Excretory Functions of Captive Vampire Bats,” Journal of Mammalogy 43 (1962): 17–26.
George Goodwin and Art Greenhall took George Goodwin and Arthur M. Greenhall, “A Review of the Bats of Trinidad and Tobago,” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 122 (1961): 187–301.
In 1969, Cornell vampire bat expert William N. McFarland and William A. Wimsatt, “Renal Function and Its Relationship to the Ecology of the Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus,” Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 28 (1970): 985–1006.
Isolated from a clover mold Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein, Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), 95.
After capturing the bats in mist nets Rexford Lord, “Control of Vampire Bats,” in Natural History of Vampire Bats, ed. A. M. Greenhall and U. Schmidt, 217–20. (Boca Raton, Fl.: CRC Press, 1988).
A related, but less-cost-efficient, method Ibid., 219.
Although we didn’t realize it Bill Hayes, Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood (New York: Random House, 2005), 172–73.
Some researchers use an alternative method Janet M. Dickson and D. G. Green, “The Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus): Improved Methods of Laboratory Care and Handling,” Laboratory Animals 4 (1970): 40.
During the three years that we maintained William A. Schutt Jr., Farouk Muradali, Mondol, Keith Joseph, and Kim Brockmann, “The Behavior and Maintenance of Captive White-Winged Vampire Bats,” Diaemus youngi (Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae). Journal of Mammalogy 80, no. 1 (1999): 71–81.
Another way that Diaemus differs Arthur M. Greenhall, “Feeding Behavior,” in Natural History of Vampire Bats, 123–35.
In 1984, zoologist Gerry Wilkinson Gerald S. Wilkinson, “Reciprocal Food Sharing in the Vampire