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Interesting Parasite
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Posted 2007-06-23, 07:10 PM in reply to
Lenny
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"I always wondered how small it must be,..."
Lenny said:
I always wondered how small it must be, to be able to swim through an ear canal...
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What a strange parasite this "Cymothoa exigua" is. One would have thought that the fish would realise and try and get rid of it, surely?
The fish might be too dumb to realize its tongue is being replaced by a parasite if its not actually causing much pain.
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