Role in Fiction
The vampire bat is often used in movies and books about vampires. Fictional vampires also consume blood, usually to survive. Comparable to the actual vampire bat, the most common feeding method is piercing a hole in the victim's neck with sharp fangs and sucking blood from the pierced area. Fictional vampires are also commonly nocturnal, and rarely come out during the day, similar to vampire bats. Other attributes of fictional vampires include, but are not restricted to, the ability to transform into a vampire bat and animal-like senses of sight and hearing. In several vampire horror films, a vampire bat arrives through the victim's window, then magically transforms into the fictional mythological creature.
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