PENGUINS BLED BY VAMPIRES

Authors
LUNAJORQUERA G CULIK BM
Citation
G. Lunajorquera et Bm. Culik, PENGUINS BLED BY VAMPIRES, Journal fur Ornithologie, 136(4), 1995, pp. 471-472
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Ornithology
Journal title
Journal fur Ornithologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00218375
Volume
136
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
471 - 472
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8375(1995)136:4<471:PBBV>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
Penguins have a variety of ennemies both on on land and at sea. This i s the first account of vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) preying on juv enile Humboldt Penguins (Spheniscus humboldti). Because of the nightly drain of blood by vampires, and because vampires transmit diseases fr om one prey species to another, this form of predation may be an impor tant mortality factor.