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Oct 30, 2013 · Learn about the vampire bats, mosquitoes, vampire finches, leeches, vampire squids, assassin bugs, and lampreys that feed on blood. Discover their habits, adaptations, and threats in this article with photos and videos.
- Big dinner. To grasp the risks real vampires take, imagine an animal 35 million times your weight. Now bite it hard enough to make it bleed. And make it mad.
- Bad blood. Tyrosine is just one of the nutrients turned toxic by the massive size of blood binges. In the real world, a vampire’s ability to excrete wastes is much more important than some fictional power to hoist trucks.
- Not enough. Blood may have lethally too much of some things, but lethally too little of others. “Vampires don’t really have it that easy,” muses ecological microbiologist Rita Rio of West Virginia University in Morgantown.
- Low-fat bats. Another downside of blood is its low fat content, at least from the vampire bat point of view. Extra cargo on a small flying mammal is limited to a mere 20 to 30 percent of the animal’s predinner weight, so a small, low-fat meal won’t fuel the bat for very long.
Learn about the diversity, evolution and ecology of bloodsucking creatures, from leeches to vampire bats, at the Royal Ontario Museum. See live and preserved specimens, and explore the cultural and scientific aspects of blood-feeding behavior.
Learn the meaning of bloodsucker as an animal that sucks blood or a person who sponges or preys on another. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries.
Explore the real and mythical bloodsuckers in this interactive exhibition at the Field Museum. Learn about their biology, culture, and history, and see live leeches and lamprey, fossils, models, and movies.
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Hematophagy. An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the engorged abdomen. This mosquito is a malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt to China. A bedbug. Two butterflies of the genus Erebia sucking fresh blood from a ...
Oct 28, 2019 · Dr. Kvist, who also helped identify Macrobdella mimicus, is co-designer of a new museum exhibit called “Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches,” a celebration of the sucking, sipping, drinking and ...
