false vampire

noun

1. any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.

false vampire

noun

1. any large insectivorous bat of the family Megadermatidae , of Africa, S and SE Asia, and Australia. They eat insects and small vertebrates but do not feed on blood

Example Sentences

Ever since, Medellín Legorreta and his team have been tagging and tracking Vampyrum bats and woolly false vampire bats, which roam the same woodlands in this corner of the Yucatán.

From Science Magazine

A false vampire bat catches a mouse in India.

From National Geographic

One of his earliest papers was on the predatory behavior of woolly false vampire bats, which he kept at home and fed, sustaining them on live mice.

From Science Magazine