Out+for+Blood

​ Out for Blood
By: Shirley Costigan " The sun is setting over a farm near a tropical rain forest. The cows and horses begin to doze. Meanwhile, hundreds of small bats fly out of a cave. The bats hear the sound of the animals breathing. These are vampire bats--and they are out for blood."

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 * Your ID || Key Ideas: What would you tell others about this article ||
 * blue380 || The article is very informational and is very helpful if you live wwith any of these creatures. ||
 * blue380 || There are animals such as birds that even drink blood and even some moths. ||
 * blue380 || Somne of the animals carry diseases so you should keep away from them, such as ticks who carry a dangerous disease called Lyme' s disease. ||
 * red56168

Yellow327 || The different types of animals that feed off blood (arthopods), That vampire bats, leeches, bedbugs, ticcks, mosquittos are the nany types of blood drinkers

Vampire bats use a method called hematophagy which means to feed on blood. ||

blue380 || I learned || I have this question? || **Respond to others here** Please include your ID ||
 * Your ID
 * blue380 || I learned that some moths even feed on blood || Are any blood sucking moths in my area, Alden? || No, I don't think so. I think those would be found in more southern areas where it's warmer. Or in the tropics perhaps. yellow327 ||
 * blue380 || Not long ago Malaria was the biggest killer in the United States || How many people in the U.S. die from Malaria each year? ||  ||
 * blue380 || Bedbugs pose no real threat to human health. || Then why are people so afraid of them, well I guess they are arfraid of them because they are pests? ||  ||
 * blue380 || A leech has two mouths || What is the other mouth for on the leech wwhen it feeds on human blood? ||  ||
 * blue380

Yellow327 || There are 14,000 blood drinking animals in today's world

 I learned that the vampire bats are no smaller than a mouse which is pretty small. I also learned that bed bugs are the size of an appleseed. so, if they are in your bed you probably wouldn't even know. || Are there any mamals that drink blood other than the Vampire Bat? When are bed bugs usually around? In the winter or summer. Because sometimes bugs try to find places warm to stay if it's cold and if it is warm outside they are more plentiful so you see them everywhere. When do the bed bugs come out? Yellow327 || yeah. i think there are more. || That mosquittos also carry malaria besides west nile virus, that some birds can also be blood drinkers, 14,000 kinds off arthopods are blood drinkers || how do leeches stop sweeling?
 * red56168 || I learned that, when mosquittos bite you they spit and this makes it so your wound can not heal,

The word hematophagy means "to feed on blood." Does the word HEM in hematophagy come from the word hemridge which means to lose blood? Yellow327'

Is it common to be bitten by a bat?? yellow327 || Sorry yellow 327 what you assumed is actually wronq, posted by blue380 || blue380 || What Thoughts do you have about the different animals that feed on blood? I thought that it was kind of odd that some moths feed on blood because usally they feed on nector from flowers || **Respond to others here** Please include your ID I think it's a bit odd aswell as 380. I was thinking....Can bloodsuckers feed on other bloodsuckers?? Thats an interesting one, don't you think!?? || yeah, i thought the same thing.
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 * blue380 || I didn't know that some birds feed on blood because usaaly they feed on nectar or fruit or sometimes some birds eat meat and are called Carnivores, ||  ||
 * blue380 || When bed bugs drank blood from humans I thought they would be a hazard to human health but actually they pose no threat to human health || orangebulldogs423

Yes, that is a very valid point. Think about it, if you have a bed bug in your bed and it's biting you night after night after night...think of all the blood you must be losing! If you lose enough, you could die. If you think about it, it seems that way but apparently they are completely harmless! || Hematophagy this means to feed on blood.
 * blue380 || I didnt know that the disease Malaria that is carried by the mosquito when it feeds on blood was the biggest killer in United States not very long ago. ||  ||
 * blue380 || I thought that leeches only had one mouth but actually they have two mouths when they feed. ||  ||
 * 423 || i learned that hemotophagy means to feed on blood.leeches have two mouths. there teeth are called probosis. arthropods means to be like spirders. ||  ||
 * 423 || i still need to know they call them host's. ||  ||
 * 423 || i dont understand how doctors are going to use leeches chemical to help heart desise. ||  ||
 * 423 || some key ideas are leeches such out several times its own weight.also doctors use leeches to stop swelling. ||  ||
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