Hardcore!
Photo by Alessandro Catenazzi
From
National Geographic News
comes this:
Once the parasitic crustaceans enter the gills of a tadpole victim, they feed off the tadpole’s tissues until male and female parasites mate. The male dies soon after. Meanwhile the fertilized female bores her way partially out of the tadpole.
Yes, and then the tadpole develops into a small, weak frog possibly with no hind legs or missing an eye or otherwise deformed. The
NGN
briefing summarizes
a report
just published in the journal
Copeia
about this parasitic copepod,
Lernaea cyprinacea
, which has proliferated in the overwarm waters of South Fork Eel River and wormed its way into Foothill Yellow-legged frogs,
Rana boylii
.
This article appears in Reform!?.
request some h20 from Pills dam from dwr……just a tiny fraction through save the eel foundation who for 37 yrs has not succeeded in gaining a drop of the dipolar molecule….hmmm…wonderin why