'Attack of the Bloodsuckers!' at LI Children's Museum
Photo credit: Barbara Alper | Dallis Cooke, 2, from Hempstead, checks out the Live Leeches at the "Attack of the Blood Suckers" exhibit at the Long Island Children's Museum in Garden City. (Jan. 17, 2013)
"Attack of the Bloodsuckers" at the Long Island Children's Museum
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Christina Kenny is used to working with unusual creatures as animal curator at the Long Island Children's Museum. But even she was skeeved out when she had to fill a sausage skin with animal blood and feed it to the leeches in the museum's newest exhibit, "Attack of the Bloodsuckers!"
Eight gray, sluglike leeches, each bigger and thicker than a man's finger, were sent to the museum in Garden...
