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It is amazing how people are willing to spread their ignorance around. Vampire bats subsist on nothing but blood. Their digestive tracts are shorter than those of any higher vertebrate; they could never survive on food that required much in the way of digestion, such as insects or fruit. Their teeth are not hollow, unless you count the pulp cavity and they do not suck blood; they lap it. Vampire bats have only 10 teeth but they are very sharp and the saliva contains an anticoagulant. They simply make an incision in a horse or cow or a human foot sticking out beyond the mosquito netting. The blood flows freely and the bat just laps it up.

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