The animals that you recognize may seem sneaky, creepy or even cruel, but these are animals that have adapted to eat other creatures without killing them. Rational, suck a little blood is much more efficient and safer than ripping the legs and pulling down an antelope.
10. Fleas
Although there are many insects that feed on blood, ticks are the largest group with 100 species haematophagous%, with more than 2000 species are known to be, they adapt to life from the blood of mammals.
their flexibility is a slim but solid body like armor that are perfect for "swim"on the fly through thick fur, rejected efforts to host to scratch or bite them out.
Lice do not ever have wings (which will slow them in their escape), but compensated with a foot that happen outside usual, allowing them to jump more than 200 times their body length to come and go from their prey.
They started their life as a maggot like larvae, which do not bite, but it takes the debris like dead skin, hair, feathers or even trash their parents. Yes, lice mother will not only drink your blood, but their droppings, they give it to her babies.
While head lice most like to eat and walk, a few species known as "sticktight" This insect is a method of eating rather unpleasant, he infiltrated the whole body is far below the skin of mammals, swell up to pea size, laying their eggs and die, still embedded in meat where it can cause bacterial infection. Fleas are not the same as lice, which do not enter from this list. Ticks are arachnids with eight legs.
9. Chinch
Originally just called the insects of the order Hemiptera, which include bedbugs, assassin bugs, waterbugs, aphids, crickets and many others. Most insects are harmless, but that evil is "bedbugs" among several varieties of parasites.
In accordance with their name, winged creatures hiding in the nesting material larger vertebrates (such as mattress and pillow you) to suck the blood of its prey during sleep. Very resilient, they adapt quickly to disease and pesticides, making them extremely difficult to eradicate.
Rapid adaptation is due in part to their hard habit to reproduce, to marry, men had to beat a bigger, and marries a female in a way exoskeleton genitals pierced through bladed, and females must be strong enough to survive the injuries to lay eggs , which means that only from a tough couple ticks that will give birth to babies of new fleas.
In some exotic species, female bedbugs have even bladed own phallus, making their marriage like a fencing match with violence.
8. Leech
Related to earthworms and other annelids, leeches can be found all over the world both on land and in water. Most species are carnivorous, eating small invertebrates or even fish and frog eggs, but famous leech haematophagous armed with a circle, such as dental and anesthesia, the compound anticoagulant in their saliva, allowing them to make an incision, a small painless on their prey ejects blood for hours.
In ancient times, it is believed that leeches can cure almost any disease by removing excess blood "bad", and while we now know it was never true, their efficiency in the drying blood is still of interest to medical science, and even leeches have been used to remove clots dangerous on the feet attached.
Apparently Leech More complex than we think, leeches have some heart, too much brain and in some species have a bunch of smaller eyes. Many species even kept close watch over them, forming a protective cocoon around the eggs and carrying tiny babies on their backs until they can fend for themselves.
7. Vampire Moths
Most moths and butterflies feed on nectar or not even eating at all, its life just enough to mate. At least one moth, however, use a sharp proboscis to drill through the skin into the bloodstream of mammals.
When the host's blood flow through the mouth-like straw, it causes these little creatures to raise and hook into the meat until the meal is finished. In contrast with mosquitoes, only the male moths into a vampire - she uses this alternative energy source well, because female moths spend most of their time to rest and wait for while men are left to venture far to find a partner.
6. Vampire Bat
The most famous of all blood drinkers and arguably the mammalian parasite, there are only three types of vampire bats or Desmodontidae, all original United state .they are is only bat that can walk on land and even stay long in the land, it allows them to sleep close to the animals larger and crawling on them.
their action is smooth, like a razor sharp teeth make a small incision in the flesh prey with little pain, and their anticoagulant saliva keeps blood flowing freely.
While almost all communal bats, vampire bats are bats that are known to care for their children, even those of other vampire bats adopt children orphaned and regard it as their own child.
5. Lamprey
Agnatha or "fish with no jaw" had been a vertebrate this planet of the earliest and dominant, appeared millions of years ago in ancient times dominated by molluscs and arthropods have some tentacles thorny.
Currently, the only living example of fishy ancestors were "slime hags" scavenging (which is quite interesting, but not haematophagous) and blood-sucking face "lampreys." Many species of lampreys Many having a filter for food is not harmful, but some well-known varieties are truly parasitic.
Attached to the other fish, they attach to and penetrate through the meat until they reach the blood or other bodily fluids, and possibly kill the prey is not strong enough to survive from a lot of fluid or blood loss
Although they seem primitive and savage, lampreys are also devoted mothers who migrate long distances to lay eggs and carefully make a pile of stones to be a protective nest their eggs.
4.Candiru
Creatures of the Amazon is a relatively small catfish are widely famous for the rare habit of swimming into the uterus and drainage of large mammals (like humans) are pretty dumb to urinating in river. This purely intentional (and fatal) in the Candiru equipped with tracer traces of urine to flow of water from the gills of larger fish.
their tiny bodies, specifically adapted to the detection of gill-rich blood, which they use their little jaws bite into the prey's body parts and partying.
3. Snail Torpedo
Maybe this is the creature who does not like vampires, Cancellaria cooperi is a species of sea slugs that prey almost exclusively on blood Torpediformes or light "electric". In accordance with their name, this cousin stingrays can provide up to 220-volt shock to immobilize prey and enemies , but parasites are another problem.
Snail slow but persistent little mucus layer can smell a torpedo from a few feet away, and use the tube, long and thin to draw blood without causing pain or discomfort of fish.
2.Vampire Sparrow
Galapagos Islands are home to a variety of well-known small sparrow, closely related but adapted to the food sources of each specific part of the island with them.
No one may be so bizarre as Geospiza difficilis septentrionalis, the only bird known to regularly consume dietary supplements with fresh blood.
It shares a rather quiet chunk of land with thousands of much larger boobies (birds, dummy), which did not even seem to fight as a relatively small sparrow pecking holes in their bodies a little scary.
It has been theorized that once possessed by a parasitic finches birds, which will develop the instinct to ignore the painful action for their own benefit.
Pipit who learn to take blood from the wound for a small extra food is probably better survivors on the island when food is greatly reduced, so that they slowly shifted into blood eaters To add insult to injury, these sparrows can also prey on eggs, encourage them out of their nest to break them open.
1. Fly
Diptera or true flies include thousands of species are known, and while most are harmless flies, drinking nectar, a beneficial scavengers or predators of other insects, Diptera also find more ways to suck the blood from any other command in the animal kingdom.
How female type of Culicidae - mosquitoes renowned - their mouths using a syringe-like to draw the blood of mammals and transmit the parasite that kills more human beings every year than all other natural forces combined.
"Horse Fly"is a bit more rough, using a mouth like a razor-edged knife to slice open flesh and drink the blood that seeped out.midges Biting and gnats can be almost too small to be seen up to tens of barbed bite occurred.
More unusual is Hippoboscidae or "louseflies," some of whom live in large prey till they mature and do not even have wings!
There's even flies with bloodsucking larvae, such as "Maggot floor of the Congo" crawler is taking cues from bedbugs and drink the blood of sleeping victims with their mouths like a leech.
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