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Richard Collins: Vampire bats don’t deserve the bad reputation

The name ‘Dracula’, it’s sometimes claimed, comes from the Irish ‘droch fhola’, or ‘evil blood’. The cognoscenti, however, say its origin is ‘drac’ — ‘dragon’ in old Romanian.

Richard Collins: Vampire bats don’t deserve the bad reputation

Sun, 05 Apr, 2020 - 20:30

Richard Collins

Vampire bats can starve to death if deprived of a blood meal for three days or more.

The name ‘Dracula’, it’s sometimes claimed, comes from the Irish ‘droch fhola’, or ‘evil blood’. The cognoscenti, however, say its origin is ‘drac’ — ‘dragon’ in old Romanian.

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