Show WINGED bloodsuckers BLOOD SUCKERS THE VAMPIRE DAT VAT AND HIB HIJ TROPICAL HOME etory of f the death of a young 0 almly the talo but other others 1 couched for by tho the fact th thi 1 cortlin south american bate bats food upon tho the blood of other othor animals lins boon known for some time but ch Cli arice arles darwin was tho the first n aliet st to fiovo thia this characteristic millo in chill ho he found that tho the bata bats worried ills his homes by biting them on tho the withers wi thore this caused severe in ill nn nu mation and increased discomfort wa caused tho the animal by tho procuro a of tho the aldio on tho the wounded parte parts one 0 aning darwin noticed that a certain boroo woe was very loss so ho lie quintey stopped up tip to tho animal and clapped hie his hand on his withers and was rewarded by catching a largo bat or vampire in tho the very net act of sucking blood load from tho the horse thoro there aro are really only two of those ferocious bate bats ono kind lives in brazil tho the othor other in chill and tho the west of south america ae as far north as blex mexico aco 1 11 hoir heir usual depredation consists of fastening stoning fa themselves upon larger animals and thon than filling themselves with blood bo be foro fore blotting loose thoy they havo have beon becu known however howo vcr to kill and devour smaller species of their own family but tho the attacks eald said to hn a boon been made on man aro are simply mahs according to a lottor letter written by one oni jamus uhl who Is engaged in tho the coffee busl busi nosi in calibozo Cal Cala bozo venezuela hie his daughter met with a s singular death lost last september tho the 30 boung ung lad who had juat just entered her seventeenth a oar car had been a somnambulist sinco since child hood and it was supposed that it was whilo in n ono one of her frequent trances that abo she loft tho the house and wandered several miles milos out into tho the countr country 3 on being searched for her body mas v found it li Is stated sti tod near tho the roadside with a largo large vampire clinging to her throat tho the bat attempted to ly ey off at tho the approach of tho the searchers tho the epistle aas but was eo so gorged with blood that it could not do so hanm it was easily lly captured tho the counton counter anco ianco of tho the aang 3 lady showed that her death had boon a painless one it is thought by her father that sho she sank down in her sloop and that tho the vampire at once fal toned upon her A small wound was found just over a or the jugular vein where tho the pearly pearl whito tooth of tho the monster had punctured the neck all the whilo while boething boo thing its victim by a gentle lulling moo movement ment of its outspread wings the length of this vampire from ti tip P of wing w tip was ov 0 cr or three foot feet and while its weight should have boon ten or twelve pounds it was so gorged with blood that it weighed over twenty pounds dr james A secretary of the natural Ills history tery society when informed of the case said I 1 that story is a humbug if there is an anything thing in it at all it is probable that tho the bat fastened itself upon the young lady after death it if sho she had been asleep the attack would hav ha a e awakened her and eho she would have had no dItE difficulty culty in arl driving ing it off tho the bat is a treat great curiosity oven with natural history students and thero there is probably no creature about which so little is known or about which such an a air of mystery hangs frequent daila uncanny places and bein being nocturnal in their habits almost effectually shut out all aja lav esti gation in tho the first place they are truo true mammals and tako take good ct TO re of their ono one oung if by chance tho the female shod glo birth to two young the malo will boiten oi ten take ono one to himself and rear it with as much success as the mother I 1 havo have known instances where two bata bats havo have hung themselves up sido side by side with the young clinging to both this method Is adopted to kap tho the young warm on another occasion a boy in philadelphia caught n young bat and started to carry it off when tho the mother flow upon hia his breast and suffered herself to be captured when who 0 o a bat enters a room at night sas prof Uen li shell it is not attracted by bi tho the light but by bj somo some insect that it is pursuing the fine membranes called tho the anre filled with nerves raid the animal git dea itself by its dellento doll cato sense of touch thoro there Is a popular superstition chrit a bat breedi bed bugs bo so it docs does but not because these insects aro are native to it but bo be cause of its ito frequenting od old houses where tho the insects abound one reason why people bellevo belie a in this bedbug story Is tho the odor that attends all tats tills this odor is produced by gland glande and is designed for protection and in fact it accomplishes ltd its purpose most effects ally und and serves to mako make tho the bat one bf tho the most disgusting creatures on earth I 1 havo known instances of scientific men getting so nauseated whilo while pursuing their studies of theeo creatures that they bavo have beon been comp compelled elied to stop work for a time tho the bat will play possum cl bot duji all tho timo watching you with haaf half cloard eyes As a rulo rule they aro are pugnacious if FL tacked and in fighting figh can show two beautiful rows of teeth tooth that aro are covered with the whitest of enamel tho the resemblance of a bat to a mouse is duo due to their oars cars hair and tho the tail tall which belongs to some moat most bats aro i 11 ti orous but as thoro aro ara more than lh u clos known thero is a wado in thelt babica I 1 aho he A flenar ing fox ox or fruit but bat 1 I a Q species that subsists on fruit thoro are seventy species of tho the fi ft jit at bat unil und soma of thorn them aro are foro clota cahors alio hit 1 conr arnd seems to ait out merely for pleasure pic plea asuro suro cocoanuts Cocoa Cocon nuts figs a almonds and aro their fa favorite food tho the bats will fly to a tree and cat ent until they drop to the ground through incao exhaustion tho thov v they llo dorm dorraine dor raint int until they got over their drunk whon thoy they will repent tho the same tiling thing I 1 hao known a bat but that ono one ounce to oat cut a ba banana inna that wot hol two dunem tho timo time in which it was done dona being biln three houm 1 hao as many na of those bats in ono treo they hang hoad downward and have tho the appearance of block black leaea 1 these fruit bata bats aro confined calony to tho the tropical re lons of tho old world there nn la a iho ono one now navy at tho the zoo whilo white both tho the cuylor club and tho the natural Ill history story society ha a e well preserved specimens in their museums sheps larco large creatures croat urca obly ably weigh ton tou pounds tho the ahmoi desm people aro are nar ald of 0 bate bats in thit they ditter from other rations rit lone as lor for In tho the chinese who hold them in wo ronco 4 and tho Samon neso who maico make pots pets of thera |