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Podcast: I Tell Stories
Episode: Vampire Bats: Ha What a Bunch of Suckers
Description: Send a textYou hear “vampire bat” and think Dracula, capes, and midnight horror. We chased the myth and found something far weirder: a tiny mammal that lives in tight-knit colonies, feeds with surgical precision, and is quietly shaping medical research with enzymes in its saliva. We dig into the recent finding of human DNA in bat feces in Brazil, what it actually suggests about changing behavior, and how habitat shifts and livestock access may be nudging bats toward new targets.We break down how vampire bats really feed—no sucking, just a razor-slice and a chem...