# ARRRGHH! The Discovery Channel is freaking me out!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 3, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrghh-the-discovery-channel-is-freaking-me-out/39511 "2000-11-03T03:19:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrghh-the-discovery-channel-is-freaking-me-out/39511/1 "2000-11-03T03:19:51Z")

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There talking about vampire bugs that drink your blood. Bed Bugs (there ARE such things!) and Lice and this Chaggus (sp?) bug that is an inch long and drinks blood from around your lips and leaves a stream of waste near your mouth that can make you sick and die! There is also a blood sucking BIRD! I’ve never heard of that.  
All I have to say is EWW!! ICK and CREEPY!

I’m itching all over.

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**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrghh-the-discovery-channel-is-freaking-me-out/39511/2 "2000-11-03T03:22:22Z")

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…Ok… I just learned that the bird is a Finch in the Galopagos islands (that figures… what DIDNT the finches there evolve to?) It plucks the veins out of larger birds legs and drinks the dripping blood. How wild, I never heard of that.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrghh-the-discovery-channel-is-freaking-me-out/39511/3 "2000-11-03T04:14:19Z")

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Have they shown the [vampire parrot](http://www.parrotsociety.org.au/articles/art_044.htm) from New Zealand yet? The [mites that live on your eye-lases](http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay00/demodex.html) are the coolest though, even if they don’t suck blood.

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrghh-the-discovery-channel-is-freaking-me-out/39511/4 "2000-11-03T04:23:40Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Colin Wilkinson \*  
> \*\*Have they shown the [vampire parrot](http://www.parrotsociety.org.au/articles/art_044.htm) from New Zealand yet? \*\*

Am I correct in gathering from the article that these parrots _EAT SHEEP_? :eek:

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**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrrghh-the-discovery-channel-is-freaking-me-out/39511/5 "2000-11-03T13:15:56Z")

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Whammo, we watched that last night too. Is that the most freakin’ gross thing you’ve ever seen (the Kissing Bug).

My new job is in the Department of Entomology at MSU (Michigan State) and we’ve got this very cool “Bug House” that is basically a little bug zoo except they’ve got these freaky, nasty bugs, like a millipede that’s about 10 inches long and as big around as my middle finger; spiders (okay, technically not insects), humming cockroaches, etc. Leaves you with a twitch after you go through it!