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The “Vampire Bat”

1883; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 27; Issue: 696 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/027411d0

1476-4687

A. W. AUDEN,

Gothic Literature and Media Analysis

DR. ROMANES, in criticising a book (“Zoological Sketches”), in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 333, says: “The writer speaks of vampire bats as those which suck the blood of sleeping persons, whereas the truth is, as Belt has remarked, ‘the vampire is the most harmless of bats.’”