And vampire bats famously carry another virus, rabies.

吸血蝠还携带着另一种著名的病毒——狂犬病。

There is a somewhat softer side to vampire bats.

吸血蝙蝠也有比较柔和的一面。

But the vampire bat still takes its English name from them.

但是吸血蝙蝠的英文名字却因此而来。

The social relationships among vampire bats work a lot like human friendships.

吸血蝙蝠的社交关系很像人类的友谊。

Vampire bats live in the warmer areas of Central and South America.

吸血蝙蝠生活在中美洲和南美洲气候温暖的地区。

One of the most well known bats is a micro bat. It is the vampire bat!

其中一种最为知名的蝙蝠就是微型蝙蝠。这种蝙蝠就是吸血蝙蝠！

The study shows that vampire bats form friendships and meet at feeding time to hunt together.

研究还表明，吸血蝙蝠会结成友谊，并在进食时间碰面，共同捕猎。

New research shows that vampire bats have deeper social relationships with one another than scientists had thought.

新的研究表明，吸血蝙蝠之间存在着深层次的社会关系，此现象超乎科学家的想象。

Vampire bats, on the other hand, hunt for blood in the night but occasionally don't find any.

另一方面，吸血蝙蝠是在夜间寻找血液的，但偶尔它们也会找不到。

The secret to how this Goliath takes off can be seen in a creature 1,000 times smaller...the vampire bat.

这头歌利亚巨人起飞的奥秘可以在比它小一千倍的生物身上找到，即吸血蝙蝠。

Researchers attached small devices to 50 vampire bats in Panama to follow their path as they feed at night.

研究人员在巴拿马的50只吸血蝙蝠身上安装了小型装置，从而在它们夜间进食时追踪其路径。

What happens is the vampire bat--vampire bats live in caves and they fly out.

发生的事情是吸血蝙蝠——吸血蝙蝠住在洞穴里，然后它们飞出去。

Aw man, those vampire bats really suck.

- 伙计， 那些吸血蝙蝠真的很烂。

And believe it or not, vampire bats are venomous, too.

不管你信不信，吸血蝙蝠也有毒。

In fact, that animal, hugely ugly, the vampire bat, shares food.

事实上，吸血蝙蝠这种极其丑陋的动物会分享食物。

And we can't forget about venomous mammals, like the vampire bat and the solenodon.

我们也不能忘记有毒的哺乳动物，比如吸血蝙蝠和梭齿鲨。

From Panama: Vampire bats monitored at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have fewer interactions with family and friends when ill, biologists say.

生物学家表示，史密森热带研究所监测的吸血蝙蝠生病时与家人和朋友的互动较少。

Vampire bats, on the other hand, hunt for blood in the night but occasionally don’t find any.

另一方面，吸血蝙蝠会在夜间寻找血液，但偶尔会一无所获。

Imagine one builds a vampire bat that accepts blood from others and shares blood.

想象一下，有人建造了一只吸血蝙蝠，它接受其他蝙蝠的血液并分享血液。

To find out if vampire bats were doing it too, Drs Rossi, Welch and their fellow stakeholders went vampire-hunting.

为了弄清楚吸血蝙蝠是否也在这样做，Rossi 博士、Welch 博士和他们的利益相关者同事们开始寻找吸血鬼。