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Desmodus rotundus vampire bat

Desmognathus quadramaculatus Black-bellied Salamander

Desmognathus wrighti Pygmy Salamander

Desmognathus fuscus Dusky Salamander; Northern Dusky Salamander

Desmognathus ochrophaeus Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander

Diaemus youngi white-winged vampire bat

Diphylla ecaudata hairy-legged vampire bat

Phyllostomidae New World leaf-nosed bats

predators, preying on species that cost farmers and foresters billions of dollars annually and are a natural alternative to pesticide use. Their feces are harvested by humans for use as a natural fertilizer. Although Desmodontinae species are sometimes considered a threat to humans because they can transmit rabies, the anticoagulant protein in their saliva is being studied in an effort to help prevent blood clots in humans. Desmodontinae species are often seen as an economic threat to human interests

Chiroptera bats

microchiropterans have become specialized to eat other kinds of diets. Some bats are carnivorous (feeding on rodents, other bats, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and even fish), many consume fruit, some are specialized for extracting nectar from flowers, and one subfamily (three species in the subfamily Desmodontinae) feeds on nothing but the blood of other vertebrates. Megachiropterans and microchiropterans differ in many other ways. Megachiropterans are found only in the Old World tropics, while