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Watch Blood-Sucking Leeches Leap From Leaves and Soar Through the AirFor centuries, observers have told tales of leeches leaping through the air in pursuit of their next meal—with written ...
As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year. For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo ...
“Contrary to popular opinion, [leeches] don’t just suck,” says Mark Siddall ... Despite their reputation, many don’t feed on blood, instead eating earthworms, snails, and other invertebrates. The ...
Leech therapy: familiar to many of Russian immigrants, but often causing confusion among Australians
Hirudotherapy is a treatment method using leeches, that has been known for hundreds of years. SBS Russian spoke to a Melbourne naturopath, Inna Mitelman, about how widely this method is known in ...
They'll be vigorously searching for their favorite meal: fresh mammal blood. Grazing cattle usually provide the juice, but you'll do. The leeches aren't too discriminating, and they're hungry.
He allows a leech to attach to his arm and suck his blood, the mouth of the leech is seen close up. The leech multiplies its body mass by six or seven times and will now not need to feed for ...
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