Learn About Hundreds of Different
Animals In Our Animal Database.

Select An Animal Type Below To Begin

Which type of Animal would you like to view?

ANTEATERS, ARMADILLOS, SLOTHS, PANGOLINS AND AARDVARKS

BATS

BEARS

BUTTERFLIES

CAMELS AND LLAMAS

CATS

CROCODILES AND ALLIGATORS

DOGS AND FOXES

EGG-LAYING MAMMALS

ELEPHANTS

FISH

FLYING LEMURS AND TREE SHREWS

FRESH WATER FISH

FROGS AND TOADS

GENETS, CIVETS, AND MONGOOSES

HIPPOS AND PIGS

HORSES, RHINOCEROSES, AND TAPIRS

HUNTER-SCAVENGERS BIRDS

HYENAS AND AARDWOLVES

HYRAXES

ICTALURIDAE

LARGE GROUND BIRDS

LIZARDS AND TUATARAS

MARSUPIALS

MOLES, HEDGEHOGS, AND SHREWS

MUSTELIDS

PHALACROCORACIDAE

PRIMATES

RABBITS, HARES, AND PIKAS

RODENTS

RUMINANTS

SALAMANDERS AND CAECILIANS

SEALS, SEA LIONS AND MANATEES

SIMPLE ANIMALS

SNAKES

SONGBIRDS

TURTLES AND TORTOISES

WATER AND SEABIRDS

WHALES, DOLPHINS, AND PORPOISES

Which Simple Animals would you like to view?

Amoeba
Australian Box Jellyfish
Beadlet Anemone
Brain Coral
By-The-Wind Sailor
Cat Roundworm
Clam Worm
Common Earthworm
Common Limpet
Crumb of Bread Sponge
Dog Tapeworm
Feather Duster
Garden Snail
Giant African Snail
Great Black Slug
Liver fluke
Lugworm
Medicinal Leech
Moon Jellyfish
Moss Animal
Mushroom Coral
Palolo Worm
Paramecium
Portuguese man-of-war
Purple or green Chiton
Red Coral
Rotifer
Sea Gooseberry
Sea Mouse
Sea Pen
Sludge Worm
Staghorn Coral
Trichoplax
Water Bear

Medicinal Leech

About Medicinal Leech
Leeches live in wet places and often feed on blood. They have flat bodies with a sucker at each end, which they move to cling to animals while they feed. While feeding a leech produces a substance that keeps blood from clotting.

What is this animal's name?	Medicinal Leech
What class is this animal assigned to?	Hirudinea
What does this animal eat?	Blood
Where did this animal live?	Europe, Eastern Africa