... and our main beast (or beauty, aahm, whom how :D ) - Confluaria podicipina, a tapeworm parasite of grebes


8 comments so far...

rztka October 12, 2008, 04:30 PM
hehe the picture of a typeworm finally!!
poor grebes btw!
Volker October 12, 2008, 06:30 PM
Ahhhhh!!!! These are the guys you're looking at. So I was completely wrong with my comment on your other photo! :-D
Gergana Vasileva plus October 13, 2008, 07:49 PM
Poor grebes, indeed! When they see me, they hurry to dive immediately as deep as they can!!! :))))

Heeehe, Volkerido, you were partly wrong, dear! Well, these are guys which I like to examine with a microscope but... some "other" guys I'd like to study using my camera &;P :)))

StevieB October 14, 2008, 02:10 PM
Well, if there's Intelligent Design, Someone has got a very unpleasant imagination!!! :)
Gergana Vasileva plus October 15, 2008, 06:14 PM
Stevie, you mean... my answer to Volker or the photo? ;)))
StevieB October 16, 2008, 11:36 PM
Well, perhaps both! ;)

But I was really thinking that those strange people who argue for ID must also accept that the designer must have the mind of a pervert! "Now, let me see. Today, I think I'll design something with a massive mouth and hooked teeth. I'll make it live in the guts of some poor unfortunate other creature that I designed last week. It will eat the other poor sod's food, and grow as long as its intestines, and make its life a misery. Oh, and tomorrow I might design a creature that lays its eggs inside the larvae of another of my previous designs, and when the eggs hatch, its young will eat the larva from the inside." Yes, a very nice imagination!!!

Gergana Vasileva plus October 19, 2008, 08:21 PM
Bbbbbbbrrrr, now I see! Thanks a lot for the explanation, Stevie! :D
In fact, the evolution is such a fascinating phenomenon creating these animals so perfect and well-fitted to their parasitic life!
kodaky October 20, 2008, 12:05 AM
hahahah
if the hosts were innocent...




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