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Does leech have a segmented body?
No
How long can a leech live out of the water?
Many leeches are terrestrial, living out of the water.
Characteristics of leeches?
Facts about Leeches:Leeches can range in size from 1 cm to over 25 cm long. The largest leech discovered measured 18 inches.Leeches are worms that has suckers on each end.There are 650 known species of leeches.About one fifth of leech species live in the sea, where they feed on fish. Leeches live just about anywhere there is water.The leech has 32 brains - 31 more than a human.The Hirudo leech lays its babies within a cocoon; whereas the Amazon leech carries its babies on its stomach - sometimes as many as 300.Not all leeches are bloodsuckers. Many are predators which eat earthworms, etc. Some feed on decaying plant material while others feed on blood and tissue of other animals.The Amazon leech uses a different method of sucking blood. It inserts a long proboscis into the victim, as opposed to biting.The bite of a leech is painless, due to its own anaesthetic.The Hirudo leech injects an anti-coagulant serum into the victim to prevent the blood clotting.The leech will gorge itself until it has had its fill and then just fall off. The leech will gorge itself up to five times its body weight.The first leech was used in medicine about 1000 B.C., probably in ancient India.In the past, people would stand in the lakes and pools dotted around the country and when the leeches attached to their legs they would put them in baskets and sell them. Today the Hirudo leech is an endangered species.The original surgeons were barbers and they used leeches to cure anything from headaches to gout!The nervous system of the leech is very similar to the human nervous system and is of enormous benefit to researchers in their quest for the answers to human problems.The nearest relatives of leeches are earthworms.Leeches can bite through a hippo's hide!The most impressive part about leeches are that they help the human body, I think, and also they suck blood out of your body. It is meant sometimes for medical things such as taking bad, dark, or infected blood from the human body. :) PEACE!!Leeches can suck the blood out of a human body for up to 30 mins. to an hour; removing about 20mL's of blood from the human body!Sanguivorous leeches can ingest several times their own weight in blood, at one meal!Leeches were often uses during medical procedures way back when...they are some times used today, to reduce swelling. sometimes eat small vertibrates They also will swell up if they are in the sun to long.leeches suck animal and human blood they cant be pulled off because of their sucking teeth but can be pryed off
What is the common name of hirudinaria?
Hirudinaria is the genus for a type of leech. Hirudinaria manillensis is a buffalo leech.
Does an earthworm share more common characteristics with a sea star leech insect or clam?
leech
Why do offspring develop inside their mother?
Placental mammals.
How long can a leech live after filling themselves with blood?
How long can a leech live after filling themselves with blood?
Does leech have a segmented body?
No
What are the characteristics of a leech?
The physical characteristics of a leech is a sucker at each end of the body.
Why are leech importance of leech in a wetland?
leechs suck the bad boold out of the body
Where do mouse will never live?
they will never live in your body and inside of your body.
Do leech live in water?
yes
What happen to leech when salt is put on them while some live in marine habitat?
When people put salt on the leech the leech dies and the marine leech will survive in the marine habitat.
How does a leech support its body?
with liquid and fluid
Can a leech live in a human intestinal tract?
no
How does the leech live?
Leeches attach themselves to other animals and suck their blood. A leech only needs to feed every few months, consuming up to three times its body weight in blood during a single feeding.
Where do eggs live?
Inside the body of the host.
