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dragonmedley wrote:Nirvanacat13 wrote:
Hey, this one’s wearing fancy leg warmers!
I know right? Straight out of the 80’s! LMAO
Just for Dragons4life!
Ok, I know these aren’t bumblebees, but they came up in the search and I thought they were cool! =P
Bumblebee bat
And bumblebee arrow frog
Now THOSE critters i can handle! Never heard of a bumblebee bat… *trots off to look ’em up*
twindragonsmum 😀
Now THIS is a weird little critter!!
“This “tongue-eating louse” is actually a type of isopod and Brock says it’s believed to be the only creature known to eat and replace the organ of its host.Dr Brock said: “I have not seen this in all my 13 years at the museum so it’s a remarkable find.
“The tongue louse enters through the fish’s gills, using claws to attach itself to the base of the snapper’s tongue and survives by drinking from an artery which supplies its blood.
“Eventually the tongue is reduced to a stub. However, the parasite is now large enough to replace the tongue and as it manipulates the fish’s food, it also dines out for free on the freed food particles when the fish eats….””
Greater Basilisk wrote:Good heavens. That’s interesting, but also rather disgusting. Poor fish.
I don’t remember what I was looking up, but I came across one account where a resteraunt souxchef was cleaning and preparing a fish and it crawled out of the mouth, they guy obviously freaked out thinking the fish was bad….I was like WUT TEH FUH??? 😮 AWESOME!!! :yum: *search for more pics*
If anyone is ever bored, they should check out wtf_nature. WARNING: Strong language sometimes used (the name of the community is WTF so what do you expect XD )
It pretty much goes over all the truly crazy what the #$#%% things in nature. Worth a look though, though some of the posts are gross like the tongue-eating parasite!Very cool pix and links. Good thing I wasn’t having a snack while viewing some of them, though. :puke: 😀
And people wonder why we live where it goes down to -50.
The worst we get is spiders and ants.Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!
-30 isn’t that bad.
Snuggle.
We’re knocking the thread off topic.
Wait.. I do that to every thread. I start threads that have non-comprehensible topics too.
GO ME.
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