Vampire Bats Feeding Off Sleeping Humans - Gaston Vuillier Art Print

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An amber moon burns through sulfur-green cloud, and the vampire bats comes to supper. Gaston Vuillier drew this night around 1890, seven years before Bram Stoker published Dracula. Three sleeping men lie on a plank veranda in the tropical Americas, the only region these animals call home.

Count the diners. One bat sits low on a bare chest and opens the skin over the breastbone. A second feeds at a throat, with a third waiting on a hip wrapped in bone-white cloth. Nobody wakes. Their saliva keeps the cut from clotting, and each animal laps at the flow.

Vuillier was a French illustrator and traveler from Perpignan who drew for the Paris travel journal Le Tour du Monde. Half a century earlier, Darwin’s servant had pulled one of these bats off a horse’s withers in Chile. This color-washed wood engraving turns that field note into a house call.

Hang the vintage natural history art print above a desk, in a cabinet of curiosities or a hallway that needs a pulse. Its indigo sky stays loud forever against lamp-black lines. And look past the palm trunks... a dozen more are flying in over the treetops.

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