![Leech keepers offer themselves as food to their 'pets' by allowing parasites to suck their blood | Daily Mail Online Leech keepers offer themselves as food to their 'pets' by allowing parasites to suck their blood | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/30/19/37419602-9099509-Buffalo_leeches_are_among_the_larger_of_the_600_known_species_of-m-6_1609356879523.jpg)
Leech keepers offer themselves as food to their 'pets' by allowing parasites to suck their blood | Daily Mail Online
![This Pet Giant Asian Buffalo Leech (Hirudinaria Manillensis) is the second-largest leech in the world. : r/oddlyterrifying This Pet Giant Asian Buffalo Leech (Hirudinaria Manillensis) is the second-largest leech in the world. : r/oddlyterrifying](https://external-preview.redd.it/qTTueLQJPx2jrzxw9ruwgtzdLtDE7TSKGpaG3EGiXZ8.png?format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80eae6395fff231335a80ae807db39d9a8243c30)
This Pet Giant Asian Buffalo Leech (Hirudinaria Manillensis) is the second-largest leech in the world. : r/oddlyterrifying
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Leech keepers offer themselves as food to their 'pets' by allowing parasites to suck their blood | Daily Mail Online
A new species of buffalo leech in the genus Hirudinaria Whitman, 1886 (Arhynchobdellida, Hirudinidae) from Thailand
Reptile Hunter - Hirudinaria manillensis aka buffalo leech, I have babies of them. It is a medicinal leech by the way and used mainly in Asia. Photo by Itsuki Yoshida | Facebook
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