Nature Wants to Eat You

“Hey, Barry, half your face is missing. Also: louse tongue.”

You know how it goes: one day you’re swimming happily along, and then a parasitic louse swims through your gills, drinks all the blood from your tongue until it wastes away and then insinuates its own body in the now empty space. It must be Thursday.

The fish really can use the tongue-eating louse (actually an isopod) like a normal tongue.


Posted 6 months ago
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Tagged: louse,, animals,, nature,, tongue-eating, science, .
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    tongue.” what WHAT
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    NEVER SWIMMING AGAIN!!!
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    Thanks for this Bin, I didn’t really need to sleep tonight anyway. Eek.
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    they focus on that more than...has people teeth.
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  19. tamejirou reblogged this from bgnori and added:
    魚類の舌やエラに寄生するウオノエという生物であるらしい。寄生された魚は「自分の舌と同様にウオノエを使う」というが本当だろうか
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    *shudders* After hearing about these things...while ago I had wondered what they looked...
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    say…. I will probably never go into open water again after seeing this.
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    … AND NOW I KNOW~
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    actual stuff of bloody nightmares. And I’m not even
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    New favourite tumblr keeping me up at night.
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    …………………………..what
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