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why did they do this – UNIAN
They placed a miniature treadmill in a small enclosure and encouraged bats to run along it.
A team of researchers from the University of Toronto decided to dig deeper into the mystery of how vampire bats survive by feeding solely on blood.
According to Interesting Engineering, they did this by putting the animals on a treadmill to measure their metabolism.
It is noted that unlike most vertebrates, which depend on carbohydrates for energy, vampire bats have evolved a remarkable ability to burn amino acids from the blood.
In the study, published in the journal Biology Letters, they were fed a blood meal containing labeled carbon atoms. Tracing isotopes…
