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What do vampire bats prey on?

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They feed on all sorts of animals and humans! like Livestock and other large animals they feed on there blood and attack while the prey sleeps the bites are painless but often give the animal or human diseases like rabies they are deadly creatures.

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Vampire bats are more like parasites than predators. They'll find a large enough, sleeping, warm-blooded animal and bite them hard enough to make them bleed. Then they'll sit by the wound and lap the blood up.

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Eagles and hawks are two of the natural pedator of vampire bats also lets not forget man. Eagles and hawks are two of the natural pedator of vampire bats also lets not forget man.

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The Common Vampire Bat feeds on Mammals while the Hairy Legged and White Winged Vampire Bats feed on birds.

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well anything that eats a normal bat like a crocodile or a bird

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Vampire bats have a very strange niche. No other vertebrates in the range of vampire bats drink blood for food. Hence, vampire bats do not need to compete with any other species.

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