A hungry common vampire bat can solicit regurgitated blood from a roostmate. In the 2013 study, previous food-sharing friendship predicted later donations more strongly than genetic relatedness; the reported association was 8.5 times stronger for friendship. The experiments measured sharing among captive bats, so the result describes a tested social pattern rather than a universal rule. 12
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