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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

And not every animal has this degree of complicated apparatus but actually we know that vampire bats do.

并不是所有动物都有这种程度的复杂器官，但实际上我们知道吸血蝙蝠有。

These findings suggest that vampire bats and blood-feeding insects have metabolic systems that are very much alike.

这些发现表明，吸血蝙蝠和吸血昆虫的代谢系统非常相似。

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

巴拿马：生物学家说，史密森尼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。

Gerald Carter said there is reason to fear vampire bats because they can spread the deadly disease rabies to both animals and people.

杰拉尔德·卡特说，蝙蝠会把致命疾病狂犬病毒传染给动物和人类，所以我们害怕吸血蝙蝠是有理由的。

Vampire bats, for example, feed only on blood: an energy drink low in lipids and carbohydrates, and rich in protein.

例如，吸血蝙蝠只以血液为食：这是一种脂质和碳水化合物含量低、蛋白质含量丰富的能量饮料。

And that struck me the most when we actually went out to the Amazon and were trying to catch vampire bats.

当我们真正去亚马逊并试图捕捉吸血蝙蝠时，这让我印象最深。