Natural history of the vampire bats of eastern Mexico
Natural history of the vampire bats of eastern Mexico
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10.2307/2422300
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1955-01-01
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DALQUEST, WALTER W.
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两种吸血蝙蝠分布在墨西哥东部，向北延伸至距离美国边境 175 英里的地方。它们对牲畜造成巨大伤害；动物有时会因蝙蝠造成的失血和伤口继发感染而死亡。吸血鬼也有可能是疾病的传播者。目前，蝙蝠在居住区数量众多，似乎主要以家畜为食。它们适应性强，生活在潮湿的热带、干旱的沙漠和中间地区。它们通常在洞穴中度过一天，但也可以居住在人类的建筑中。牛和马最常被捕食；一些地区的家禽受到损坏；人类很少被咬伤。蝙蝠非常顽强、数量众多且适应性强，因此控制它们非常困难。任何成功的控制方法都必须足够便宜且简单，以吸引未受过教育的墨西哥农民和牧场主。目前尚未发现有效的控制方法。 ||摘要作者： 作者
Two species of vampire bats range through eastern Mexico northward to 175 miles from the United States boundary. They do great damage to livestock; animals sometimes die from loss of blood and secondary infection of the wounds made by the bats. It is possible that vampires are vectors of diseases also. At the present time the bats are abundant in inhabited areas and seem to live principally on domestic animals. They are adaptable, living in the humid tropics, the arid deserts and intermediate areas. They normally spend the day in caves but can also dwell in the structures of man. Cattle and horses are most often preyed upon; poultry in some areas is damaged; rarely are humans bitten. The bats are so tough, abundant and adaptable that their control promises to be extremely difficult. Any successful control method must be cheap and simple enough to appeal to uneducated Mexican farmers and ranchers. No effective control methods have yet been discovered. || ABSTRACT AUTHORS: Authors