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Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Bill Schutt
"A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures."
?San Francisco Chronicle
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature?s strangest creatures?the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from bats to bedbugs, are as deserving of our curiosity as warmer and fuzzier species are?and that many of them are even worthy of conservation.
Enlightening and alarming, Dark Banquet peers into a part of the natural world to which we are, through our blood, inextricably linked.
"Dark Banquet is an amazing account of all those creatures that most of us consider really creepy! But author Bill Schutt doesn?t, and actually embraces these critters and their bloodthirsty lifestyles. It?s great to see such wonderful animal research in a reader-friendly form. After finishing the book, you?ll have a lot to discuss at your next dinner party!"
?Jack Hanna, director emeritus, Columbus Zoo, and host of television?s Emmy Award?winning series Into the Wild
"[A] passionate defense of bloodsuckers from the leech to the candiru."
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336 pages, 54 LINE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 6, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780307381132 |
| Publishers | Random House USA Inc |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 214 × 137 × 8 mm · 378 g |
| Language | English |
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