Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) feeding on the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus): possible epidemiological implications.

Mario H. Alves; Gabriel F. Massocato; Lucas M. Barreto; Danilo Kluyber; Arnaud L. J. Desbiez

doi:10.31687/SaremNMS24.08.2

Autores/as

Mario H. Alves Instituto de Conservação de Animais Silvestres (ICAS), Campo Grande, Brazil.
Gabriel F. Massocato Instituto de Conservação de Animais Silvestres (ICAS), Campo Grande, Brazil. Houston Zoo, Houston, USA.
Lucas M. Barreto Instituto de Conservação de Animais Silvestres (ICAS), Campo Grande, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3317-7702
Danilo Kluyber Instituto de Conservação de Animais Silvestres (ICAS), Campo Grande, Brazil. Naples Zoo at the Caribbean Gardens, Naples, USA. Research and Development Institute IRD Montpellier University / Instituto de Medicina Tropical/Faculdade de Medicina, USP, São Paulo, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8964-566X
Arnaud L. J. Desbiez Instituto de Conservação de Animais Silvestres (ICAS), Campo Grande, Brazil. RZSS – The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5968-6025

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31687/SaremNMS24.08.2

Palabras clave:

camera-trap, Chiroptera, disease, hematophagy, Xenarthra

Resumen

There has been an increase in the number of studies on the diet of common vampire bats following the widespread use of modern camera traps by field researchers. In this study, we report evidence of common vampire bats feeding on two species of xenarthrans: a juvenile giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758) being carried on its mother´'s back in the southern Pantanal, and a giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus Kerr, 1792) in the Atlantic rainforest of Minas Gerais state. The variety of species that Desmodus rotundus (E. Geoffroy, 1810) feeds on may favor the transmission of microorganisms in populations of wild and domestic mammals.

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