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Tongue-Eating Louse
This “nubile” louse feeds off a fish's tongue blood until the appendage atrophies and falls off. The fish continues its life using the small creature as a replacement tongue. The same thing can happen to you while you are sleeping.
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Video of cymothoa exigua
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This world continues to prove itself infinitely nastier than we thought possible.
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Apparently fish use their tongues
mostly for taste: “A fish’s tongue … is flat, rigid, and cartilaginous and moves only when the base below it moves; nevertheless, it does
possess taste buds that indicate to the fish whether to accept or to reject any thing taken into its mouth.”
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Cutaway side view of the cymothoa exigua louse
