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Categories: Bats of Central America, Hematophages, Vampire bats, Bats of Mexico, Articles with 'species' microformats

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Any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood WordNet 3.0

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Any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Vampire bats, members of the subfamily Desmodontinae, are leaf-nosed bats currently found in Central and South America. Wikipedia

Subfamily of mammal Wikidata

Bat feeding on the blood (hematophagous) of large mammals such as horses or bovines. OmegaWiki

Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to South America, which use their teeth to nick larger animals while they are asleep, allowing it to surreptitiously lap a blood meal. Wiktionary

Bat of the subfamily Desmodontinae. Wiktionary (translation)

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hairy-legged vampire bat

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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