Blood Feeders Have Microbes in Their Guts

Many blood feeders also have processes that help them break down or excrete, excess iron cool. Blood does not have vitum in b which animals need to turn food into energy. A lot of sanguavors have vite vitem in b producing microbes in their gut so that they can get it. That's awesome. In fact, a 20 21 that i looked at found that ticks inherit these microbes from their mothers. These microbes are passed down just like we pass down certain microbes to our babies when they're born.

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