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1. Bats are generally small, eat insects, and are scared of humans. However, some bats have very scary names, such as the vampire bats in Central America that drink animal blood. There's another bat in the same area with a different but still spooky name - which is it?
2. Have you ever seen a parrot that looks like a goth? The Dracula parrot is mostly black with shades of dark grey and flashes of bright red on its wings, bellies, and tails, giving this bird an outfit that Vlad III might have been proud of. It looks like a bloodthirsty vampire with bad table manners - but what does the Dracula parrot really eat?
3. This lizardy thing has a name after my own black heart, it's the satanic leaf-tailed gecko. It has more camouflage than an army. It can lose its flattened tail which looks like a decaying leaf, it has spines on most other parts of its body, and lumps above its eyes also help to make it blend in with the irregular background of a forest. However, when the gecko is threatened, what else can it do?
4. This critter appears to be looking at you through a skull on its thorax. It tastes with its feet and has both Asian and African members of its family. Some of the African species migrate to the UK where they are the largest of their kind - some are larger than some of the native birds. Like the birds, they flutter and some even chirp! What creature is this?
5. Fortunately, if you go out trick-or-treating, you're unlikely to find this spooky thing in your neighbourhood as it lurks about 2-3000 metres (6-10000 ft) underwater, waiting for someone to throw it a bone or, more likely, for a whale to die - because they eat bones. Their Latin name translates as 'bone-devourer' but what other spooky name do humans call them?
6. The vampire squid doesn't feed on blood but gets its name from the webbing that connects its legs and make it look like the squid is wearing a cloak, just like any regular vampire. Depending on the lighting, the vampire squid's eyes can appear either red or blue but there is something else about their eyes that distinguishes them from all other animals; what is that?
7. We all know that Darwin found some unique finches in the Galapagos Islands but what we rarely learn about is that one group of finches on those islands feeds on blood. Vampire finches don't only eat/drink blood but when they do, it's the blood of another bird, usually the same sort of bird. What silly-sounding birds do vampire finches feed on?
8. Imagine a young caterpillar that spends its life munching plants so that it can grow up into a beautiful butterfly. But what if something, such as a parasitic wasp, laid its eggs inside the caterpillar and its babies ate bits of the caterpillar from the inside out so that when the caterpillar eventually turned into a butterfly it had bits missing and wasn't quite so pretty. What would you call the butterfly then?
9. Walking along the seashore can be so romantic but mind where you tread, because if the ghosties don't get you the sea goblins might! This fish is brightly coloured, either red or yellow, and it blends in with the sands or corals where it lies in wait for unsuspecting prey. It usually doesn't move very far but when it does, it uses a rather strange method for a fish. How does it get about on the seabed?
10. If you want to visit a Halloween hermit crab in its natural habitat you need to visit some reefs in both the Indian and Pacific oceans and in particular the sandy slopes that lie around the reef edges. The crab isn't very big, only about 5 cm (2 ins) long, and it lives in the discarded shells of other marine creatures, such as snails. However, it's noticeable because of its brightly striped legs. Given the crab's name, what do you think is the main bright colour in the stripes on the crab's legs?
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