8 Animals That Suck (Blood): Quick Facts

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Bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

Photomicrograph of a dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis).

red-billed oxpecker

sharp-beaked ground finch (Geospiza difficilis)

A medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, with a dark, striped body, is attached to human skin.

common vampire bat

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