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Bloody Suckers
Season 21
Episode 4
Just like the legendary Count Dracula, many species of animals on the planet drink blood to survive. Fleas, flies, ticks, leeches, mosquitoes, birds and bats are some of them. In this program, filmmaker Mark Ferns offers himself to one bloody sucker after another in a compelling examination of the vampires of the animal world.
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