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Dark banquet : blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures / Bill Schutt ; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne.
- Title
- Dark banquet : blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures / Bill Schutt ; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne.
- Author
- Schutt, Bill
- Publication
- New York : Harmony, c2008.
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| Text | Request in advance | QL756.55 .S38 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Wynne, Patricia
- Description
- 325 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A witty and informative look inside the world of animals that feed on blood examines the ecological roles and life cycles of the vampire bat, leeches, ticks, mites, bedbugs, and a feared vampire fish known as the candiru.
- Subject
- Bloodsucking animals
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-310) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1: No country for old chickens -- Wallerfield -- Children of the night -- Snapple, anyone? -- Part 2: Let it bleed -- Eighty ounces -- Red stuff -- Beautiful friendship -- Part 3: Bed bug & beyond -- Sleeping with the enemy -- Of mites and men -- Candiru: with a capital C and that rhymes with P -- Tough way to make a living.
- ISBN
- 9780307381125
- LCCN
- ^^2008003061
- OCLC
- 191697344
- SCSB-10345869
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library