BLOOD SUCKERS

that's where it'll all be about this time!

I'm quite surprised at what animals I found that live on blood, not all of them are the typical nasty looking invertebrates! I stumbled across an animal planet show about blood suckers so I'll just share 4 of em who are worth showing

Vampire Finch
Vampiervink
Let's start with a bird! the Vampire finch (vampiervink) also known as the sharp-billed ground finch seem to live on boobie-blood, and yes we're talking about bird blood here;)



Candiru
This fish also known as the toothpickfish (tandenstokervis) is a parasite that enters the gills of fish and drinks from the blood. It navigates by following a scent of urea which sadly can also be found in human urine, that's what makes peeing in the water not a very smart idea at all



Madrilenial Butterfly

A butterfly that sucks the dead blood from cattle in spain, embedding wasn't allowed so i'll just post the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mthhQYg02Cc

Leech
Bloedzuiger
ofcourse this guy has to be here, same problem als above it's straight from the show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMci6O--1wY