EX LIBRIS: Hidden Creatures

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Welcome to the hidden, squirming world of parasites, some of the most misunderstood creatures with whom we share the Earth (and our bodies). There is the tapeworm, which can grow 120 feet in length within the gut of a whale; the tsetse fly, a notorious vector of disease that can pierce the skin even of crocodiles with its needle-like mouth; and the most universal symbol of parasitic behavior: the leech. Long villainized as, well, parasitic, these creatures are actually a vital part of every ec

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Providence Athenaeum

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