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Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
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September 23, 2014
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December 21, 2014
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Bill
Feb 02, 2014 rated it liked it
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One of the questions that came up for me as I read this book was: how do obligate blood-feeders protect themselves from diseases and parasites found in their hosts' blood? This was not answered in any detail in Dark Banquet, although there is plenty of other fascinating-and occasionally offputting- information throughout this book.

Sometimes Schutt's humorous asides were a little bothersome; I could see where they might come off in a better way in a classroom setting than in print. In print, som
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