No injured cavers recorded.
"Vampire bats in a cave near Cuernavaca are supposed to have bitten a man to death." (Current Titles in Speleology)
The information is too incomplete for proper analysis, but it is hard to imagine vampire bats attacking a man unless he was asleep, injured, or drunk. In spite of many warnings about accidentally cornering a poisonous snake or large mammal in a cave, this is the only instance of an animal injuring a caver which has ever been reported in American Caving Accidents.
Man allegedly bitten to death by vampire bats. Brisol Evening Post 5/12/73, Current Titles in Speleology, 1973, part 1, ref 73.2411.
This record was last updated on 27th Apr 2024 at 23:11 UTC.