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Top 10 Animals Most People Are Scared Of

3rd Place:

Bats

Greetings from Dracula! Bats are spooky looking, because they spend most of their time upside down in caves. As blood-sucking killers, they appear in every classic horror film. But is it really true that they bite humans to suck our blood? No, that’s just a myth.

Of the almost 1,000 different kinds of bat, 997 feed on insects, nectar, small mammals, birds, frogs and fish. There are only three kinds that feed on blood. They bite cows and horses. They don’t suck them dry, just take a few drops and they're full.


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