Word: desmodus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infectious diseases. Despite its minuscule proportions-an adult may weigh as little as one-half ounce and seldom more than 1½ ounces-the common vampire has made it economically impractical to raise cattle or horses in large areas from central Mexico to central Argentina. Efforts to destroy Desmodus rotundus by such crude methods as dynamiting or using flamethrowers in his cave roosts have proved too costly, inefficient, and disastrous for neighboring populations of beneficial, insect-eating bats...
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