Rabid Vampire Bats attack 500 Peruvians

[Ron Fulcher]

Link to BBC News Story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10960389

[Tlaloc]

The bat in that article doesn't look like a vampire to me. Here is an article with an image of a vampire:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/a ... e-bat.html

[Squirrel Girl]

The bat in that article doesn't look like a vampire to me. Here is an article with an image of a vampire:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/a ... e-bat.html

I didn't think it looked like a vampire bat, either! Maybe a horseshoe nosed bat?

I guess they figure a bat's a bat???? Any picture will do.

[paul]

Well, the "alt" text for the image on the BBC site says "Vampire bat captured in Brazil, 2005 ".

[self-deleted_user]

It still wouldn't be the first time an image was messed up. I can't remember if it was the BBC or not (I think it was, as it's usually the only online news source I read), but an article about Obama I read online had a picture labeled and alt text'd as him, but it was clearly /not/ him. If they can get that wrong, seems easy enough to label a bat wrong.

[cavergirl]

there are several species of vampire bats. this one seems to have some white on the wings. possibly a White-Winged Vampire Bat (Diaemus youngi)?
http://hubpages.com/hub/Vampire-Bats

[Ernie Coffman]

Here's a follow-up on this article, except this time it has killed five children.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39320670/ns ... ?GT1=43001
Not a good time to have articles, like this, in the news what with WNS here in our country.