What's the largest a vampiric animal can be?

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>>2438030
This motherfucker reaches up to 40 inches of pure fuck you

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>>2438039
That's quite formidable. So significant sizes are possible, it seems.
Does blood provide the nutrients required to support larger animals, like primates for instance? Could a larger predator develop to subsist entirely on blood, realistically?

I acknowledge my questions are fueled mostly by a childish curiosity that must seem juvenile, but I'm seriously interested in hypothetical nature and vampirism in larger animals.

>>2438042
In theory, yes. But in reality there are no hosts big enough where something the size of a monkey could just latch on and succ unnoticed.

>>2438061
Hematophagy is a form of predation, I don't think it's solely for parasites.

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No anon, vampires will never be real.
Go back to sleep.

>>2438039
Iirc atlantic lampreys reach bigger sizes than those introduced in the Great Lakes.
Mainly because there are no big sea mammals the fishes to feed on said lakes.

>>2438061
>succ
Funny how changing one letter can add so much for comedic effect

>>2438253
I wonder what it feels like to get bit by one. Doubt that it's as harmless as a leech, those teeth look nasty.

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>>2438030
pretty big

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lol

>>2438460

This creature has no right to be so big. All that mass 100% devoted to sitting still and succ for all of time. Fuck that thing.

>>2438464
Neither does ur mum