The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News The tiny form of a desmodus rotundus or common vampire bat. Photo by Jerome Foster. - Less than one per cent of Trinidad and Tobago’s bat population has rabies. Of the 68 species of bats in the country only two species, both vampire bats – the bovine-loving 'Desmodus rotundus' and the white-winged 'Diaemus youngi' that feeds on birds – can transmit rabies. Even with that small percentage, the Desmodus rotundus […]
