One for the "I swear I'm not making this up" category
I heard a story on the radio today about a parasite that attaches itself to a snapper's tongue and eats it. Worse, the parasite turns itself around and becomes the fish's tongue. Ewww.
The truly weird part about this story is that I heard it on NPR's This American Life. Ira Glass was interviewing author Carl Zimmer about his new book Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures. Actually, it sounds pretty interesting. What a weird forum for that type of book, however.
Hey, does this parasite/fish thing suggest to anyone a weird conservative/media analogy?
posted by Lisa @ 5:09 PM
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Dude, listen to what I just read (in a book about a crazy guy at an insane asylum that cut off his own penis):
"The surgical removal of the penis is at the best of times a dangerous practice, rarely performed even by doctors: An attack by the Brazilian fishlet known as candiru, which likes to swim up a man's urine stream and lodge in the urethra with a ring of retrorse spines preventing its removal, is one of the very rare circumstances in which [a] doctor will perform the operation, known as a peotomy."
Relevance to your post: Fish are weird.
You just have to wonder: why?
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