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How can leech suck the skin without pain ?
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Evolution: The leech is a wily bloodsucker; uses its own brand of numbing before it injects its sucking mouth part. Don't think about it too much;use it as motivation to avoid where they wait and wait.
Answered 5/11/2016
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