%0 Journal Article
%T Os quir¨®pteros do Novo Mundo: a Am¨¦rica e o morcego hemat¨®fago no relato de viajantes quinhentistas
%A Santos
%A Christian Fausto Moraes dos
%A Ferreira
%A V¨ªtor de Souza
%A Carreira
%A L¨ªgia
%J Varia Historia
%D 2007
%I Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
%R 10.1590/S0104-87752007000200018
%X the arrival of the europeans in the new world will reveal not only the contact with new cultures or new riches; a completely unknown species will be revealed in the reports of practically all the travelers that came to america. in this context, a mammal will be the object of various reports; the blood-eating bat. based upon information contained in the reports and descriptions of the travelers, colonizers and missionaries from the old world that ventured into xvi century america, we intend to analyze not only issues related to the history of the naming, morphology and etiology of the american bat but we will also trace a historical sanitary study of this species known today as one of the biggest retainers of the hydrophobia virus.
%K america
%K xvi century
%K vampire bat.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-87752007000200018&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en