Bloodsuckers: Top Facts on the Most Irritating Creatures of All

About this book

There is an innate fascination with the world of hunters, parasites and nasty critters that bite in the night. It is doubly fascinating if the prey stalked by these often-unseen creatures is us humans. This book highlights a subject that both fascinates and horrifies readers, approaching it in an informative and entertaining way. It showcases visually, and with up-to-date information, the world of all the creatures which hunt us to feed on our blood, and also feast on the blood of other animals.

Bloodsuckers is a gory tour through the often complex and amazing adaptations that have evolved among many creatures which need our blood to feed their next generation. From leeches and mosquitoes to vampire bats and lampreys (a family of bloodsucking fish), it's all here. This remarkable book, covering an especially engaging sub-set of animals uses superb photography to illustrate the types of behaviour that will make your skin crawl. It will resonate strongly with all those who have a fascination with the dangerous, the grotesque and the plain icky.

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