Like college roommates, vampirebats bond when randomly paired OhioState RSocPublishing
Vampire bat pairs that were forced to live together for only one week sustained their friendly relationships for more than two months after they were released into a bigger bat community.that are based on precisely measured effects of relationship manipulation rather than on observation alone.
The study was conducted by Imran Razik with help from Bridget Brown, both Ohio State graduate students in evolution, ecology and organismal biology. Carter and Razik are also affiliates of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, where the study took place.The team captured seven adult female vampire bats from each of three distantly located roosts to assemble the colony of 21 bats for the study.
Pairs of bats that lived together were identified as test pairs whose grooming behavior was compared to two other types of pairs—control pairs that were not forced into proximity, and familiar pairs of bats that were caught from the same roost.During the three study phases, Razik observed and measured all bat grooming interactions of 5 seconds or longer that were captured by three infrared surveillance cameras operating for six hours each day.
Results showed, based on the overall mean change in social grooming rates, that the forced proximity phase increased social grooming in test pairs more than in control and familiar pairs.
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