Case reports of common vampire bats Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae) attacking wild exotic mammals in Argentina
We present evidence of common vampire bats Desmodus rotundus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810) attacking two wild exotic mammals; the wild pig Sus scrofa (Linnaeus, 1758) and the chital deer Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777). Observations were made in El Palmar National Park, Entre Rios province (Argentina...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/181740 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/181740 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | DESMODUS ROTUNDUS VAMPIRE ATTACK WILD MAMMAL https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | We present evidence of common vampire bats Desmodus rotundus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810) attacking two wild exotic mammals; the wild pig Sus scrofa (Linnaeus, 1758) and the chital deer Axis axis (Erxleben, 1777). Observations were made in El Palmar National Park, Entre Rios province (Argentina) using camera traps. To our knowledge, this is the f rst report documenting attacks ofvampire bats to exotic wild mammals in Argentina. |
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