Book Description
Examines animals that feed on blood, including mosquitoes, vampire bats, lice, leeches, lampreys, and fleas, and looks at their anatomy, behavior, and interactions with people.
Author : Ron Knapp
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1464502862
Examines animals that feed on blood, including mosquitoes, vampire bats, lice, leeches, lampreys, and fleas, and looks at their anatomy, behavior, and interactions with people.
Author : Ron Knapp
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1464602867
When we think of bloodsuckers, we often imagine vampires like Count Dracula in scary movies, but what about the real bloodsuckers that creep, crawl, and fly all over the world? Mosquitoes love to feed on human blood. Vampire bats fly out of their caves for a late night meal. Fleas like to crawl between the hairs of dogs and cats for a bloody snack. Readers will learn all about these bloodthirsty animals in this book, and which ones might be coming for them.
Author : Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher : Scholastic Library Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531119679
Collects information about animals and insects that thrive off of the blood of other animals and humans, such as mosquitoes, lice, bats, and leeches.
Author : Kelly Regan Barnhill
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Monsters
ISBN : 142962292X
"Describes a variety of popular monsters, including real-life accounts that inspire the legends behind the creatures"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jody S. Rake
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1406291838
Blood sucking bed bugs, bats and birds. Readers will learn about creatures all over the world that love to binge on blood. These disgusting diets and other interesting facts will make readers say, eww, gross!
Author : Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2002-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613594530
Collects information about animals and insects that thrive off of the blood of other animals and humans, such as mosquitoes, lice, bats, and leeches.
Author : Chana Stiefel
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : 1426331495
"Facts and information about parasites and other creatures of the animals world"--
Author : Chana Stiefel
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : 1426331495
"Facts and information about parasites and other creatures of the animals world"--
Author : Bill Schutt
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0307381137
“A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Bill Schutt turns whatever fear and disgust you may feel towards nature’s vampires into a healthy respect for evolution’s power to fill every conceivable niche.”—Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from bats to bedbugs, are as deserving of our curiosity as warmer and fuzzier species are—and that many of them are even worthy of conservation. Examining the substance that sustains nature’s vampires, Schutt reveals just how little we actually knew about blood until well into the twentieth century. We revisit George Washington on his deathbed to learn how ideas about blood and the supposedly therapeutic value of bloodletting, first devised by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, survived into relatively modern times. Dark Banquet details our dangerous and sometimes deadly encounters with ticks, chiggers, and mites (the latter implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder—currently devastating honey bees worldwide). Then there are the truly weird—vampire finches. And if you thought piranha were scary, some people believe that the candiru (or willy fish) is the best reason to avoid swimming in the Amazon. Enlightening and alarming, Dark Banquet peers into a part of the natural world to which we are, through our blood, inextricably linked.
Author : Alicia Z. Klepeis
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1474704565
Stories about hungry vampires hunting for a meal of fresh blood have been around for thousands of years. Take young readers on a trip through time to learn about ancient and medieval lore about vampires. Then explore how vampire stories have changed over time until these bloodthirsty monsters became the lonesome and tortured creatures often seen in today's popular culture.