Leeches can store blood for months, making them a walking blood bank for researchers in the rainforests.
#Leech mouth skin#
When they find prey they attach themselves and start to pierce the skin in order to get to the blood. They wave around their heads to sense their environment, using their chemoreceptors. While most water leeches actively hunt for prey, land leeches hunt inactively similar to ticks. Land leeches are known for their sometimes bizarre hunting methods. These include two suckers as well as three “jaws.” A posterior (meaning “end”) sucker with an anus, as well as an anterior or “head” sucker with the mouth, allow the leech to cling onto unsuspecting hosts and move like a caterpillar at great speed – this method of locomotion is called “looping.” The jaws are in fact three sharp teeth, used to pierce the skin of smaller animals, or even larger mammals with ease.
They have however evolved some special adaptations for their blood-sucking lifestyle. Leeches are simple organisms, most comparable to the normal earthworm that can be found in plain dirt. Land leeches are known to bite through cloth, get inside your clothing and cover every inch of bare skin you can offer them. Her limbs are tipped with circular orifices like a leech and her face consists entirely of a single large mouth with blocky teeth. The Leech Devil has a large wrinkled body with four legs and two tentacle-like arms. She is the secondary antagonist of the Bat Devil arc. A lot of natives, as well as scientists, call this animal one of the most annoying creatures they had ever seen. The Leech Devil (, Hiru no akuma) is a devil that embodies the fear of leeches. While leeches have been known to mankind for a long time, not a lot species had been described and more and more species are being discovered every year. Currently there are 60 species known to science, of which 50 belong to the Family Haemadipsidae (literally “Blood – thirsty”), while the rest are in the Family Xerobdellida. Land leeches are native to Madagascar and India and the islands of Indonesia, but there are some species found in Japan.
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