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| 20 | 607 | Such View more quotes about creatures">creatures may also be used, of course, for less benign purposes, for torture, the extraction of information, punishment and, in the extreme, executions. |
| 20 | 608 | The "leech death" is not a pleasant one. |
| 20 | 609 | These creatures are not to be confused with the leech plant, which supplements its photosynthetic activities with striking, snakelike, at passing objects. |
| 20 | 610 | It has paired, curved, hollow, fanglike thorns, associated with a pulsating, podlike bladder. |
| 20 | 611 | The leech plant can draw a considerable amount of blood in a short time. |
| 20 | 612 | They tend to grow in thick patches. |
| 20 | 613 | There is not a great deal of danger from such plants provided one can remove oneself from their vicinity. |