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  2. Hematophagy - Wikipedia

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    The phlebotomic action opens a channel for contamination of the host species with bacteria, viruses and blood-borne parasites contained in the hematophagous organism. Thus, many animal and human infectious diseases are transmitted by hematophagous species, such as the bubonic plague, Chagas disease, dengue fever, eastern equine encephalitis, filariasis, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, malaria ...

  3. Reduviidae - Wikipedia

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    The family members are almost all predatory, except for a few blood-sucking species, some of which are important as disease vectors. About 7000 species have been described, in more than 20 recognized subfamilies, making it one of the largest families in the Hemiptera. [1] The name Reduviidae is derived from the type genus, Reduvius.

  4. Bird louse - Wikipedia

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    A bird louse is any chewing louse (small, biting insects) of order Phthiraptera which parasitizes warm-blooded animals, especially birds. Bird lice may feed on feathers , skin , or blood . They have no wings, and their biting mouth parts distinguish them from true lice, which suck blood.

  5. The Bird With the Blood-Thirsty Beak - AOL

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    The vampire finches of the Galápagos weren’t always the blood-sucking creatures we see today. Just half a million years ago, these birds arrived on Wolf and Darwin islands and entered into a ...

  6. Fake blood and stuffed animals: How wildlife forensics could ...

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    It uses life-size animals preserved by taxidermy, and some are marked with bloody wounds made with red paint. Besides the corrugated iron walls and roof, the warehouse looks like a typical dry ...

  7. 5 animals die after bird flu exposure at Arizona zoo; 25 ...

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    Officials in Arizona this week said nearly a half-dozen animals including a cheetah and a mountain lion at a Phoenix-area zoo died and others are sick after being exposed to the bird flu.

  8. Triatominae - Wikipedia

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    Domestic and sylvatic species can carry the Chagas parasite to humans and wild mammals; birds are immune to the parasite. T. cruzi transmission is carried mainly from human to human by domestic kissing bugs; from the vertebrate to the bug by blood, and from the bug to the vertebrate by the insect's feces, and not by its saliva as occurs in most ...

  9. Python caught in Everglades had blood-sucking tick filling ...

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    It takes a lot to give professional snake wranglers the creeps, but it happened when a group of hunters captured a python plagued by blood-sucking ticks in Florida’s Everglades.