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do vampire bats poop out blood?

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albanian albanian
 
 September 23, 2009 10:55 PM
No. Like your own excrement, that of vampire bats consists of what is left after the food (in this case blood) has been digested plus some waste products. There would be very little of it. Most of the water and most of the nutrients in the blood are absorbed by the bat as blood is highly digestible.

Vampire bats live exclusively on blood. They do not eat anything else.

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ab1 ab1
 
September 23, 2009 09:24 PM
hmmm must be...perhaps a combination of insects and blood remnants in their stools.
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albanian albanian
 
September 23, 2009 10:56 PM - Fact Refuted
Rather than deduce without data, you should look up a bit of information. For example, vampire bats do not and cannot eat insects.

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ab1 ab1
 
September 24, 2009 01:42 AM
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_vampire_bats_eat_insects

wiki answers say they do

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topaz5433 topaz5433
 
September 25, 2009 07:05 PM
Sorry to get into this, but wiki.answers is wrong:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/common-vampire-bat.html

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albanian albanian
 
September 29, 2009 10:37 PM
You can't trust answer sites. Including Mahalo! You have to follow up on their references, if any.

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ematlosz ematlosz
 
September 23, 2009 09:25 PM
I suppose anything with an ass has the ability to poop blood.

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psionandy psionandy
 
September 25, 2009 08:33 PM
One of my favourite podcasts is called The eclectic review

They recently did a fascinating episode about Vampire Physiology.Where the extrapolated information about known 'vampires' such as the Vampire bat and the Mosquito and applied it to the fictional vampires from legend and mythology.

It worked really nicely and they explained and predicted what sort of behaviour, and problems such a creature would have... including its digestive and excretory systems.... Because of the large amount of water found in blood any vampire would have to be able to get rid of it quickly or it would be too heavy to move or fly... so its more likely to pee than to poop.

You can find the episode here Its only 30 minutes in length, but its well worth hearing

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ab1 ab1
 
September 27, 2009 06:15 PM
Now this is interesting!

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September 26, 2009 01:19 AM
No. They just poop the regular poop.

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fifi3 fifi3
 
October 27, 2009 12:54 AM
no.

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