Vampire Bat Research Paper

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Vampire bat By: Sarah hawkins

36.7 million people die from AIDS and 1,500 die from cancer each day and vampire bats could change that if we don't kill them we could find out and lower that number.Bats should not be killed because they could be a cure to cancer and AIDS. If they were to be killed the food chain would be messed up and could not be fixed. Also they help farmers with crops because of bugs. They are very helpful to humans and the environment in many ways to find out more information about them keep reading. So now let's bite into it.

For the first reason they are helpful to humans because they could be the cure to AIDS and cancer. Cancer is something that a lot of people die of each year. If we kill the bats then we will

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