As doctors visited the home of a 65-year-old farmer in North Wollo, Raya Kobbo, he told them his saliva had tints of blood, occasionally bright red, according to a medical case report published March ...

Doctors grabbed the leech with forceps and carefully removed the animal, now nearly 4 inches long after feeding on the man’s blood supply for at least a week, according to the report.

Instead of feeding on blood, it hunts down and devours worms, particularly the Kinabalu Giant Earthworm ( Pheretima darnleiensis ), which can grow up to 70cm (2.3 feet) long! As its name suggests, the ...

LEECHES are adapted by their structure and physiology to an ectoparasitic, blood-sucking mode of life ... the skin but sometimes in the coelom. The leech is a species of Philaemon, possibly ...