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exploring the oft-reviled critters that bite, pierce, scrape and saw their way through flesh to access their favorite food source: blood. the exhibition, called "bloodsuckers," includes displays of other live animals—mosquitoes, ticks and leeches—interspersed throughout the gallery. and dozens of preserved
steal their life-sustaining fluids. blood-feeding likely evolved repeatedly over the course of our planet's history—"perhaps as many as times," according to kvist. bloodsucking creatures have no common ancestor, as the behavior has cropped up independently in birds, bats, insects, fish and other animal...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-world-needs-bloodsucking-creatures-180973670/