Camera Tricks or Mother Nature: Mind-blowing Photos and Stories That Will Leave You on the Edge of Your Seat!
They Live for Tongues
Parasites live by feeding off other creatures, and the thought of them is enough to make one terrified of their moves. So imagine how this poor fish must have felt when this tongue-eating louse called cymothoa exigua attacked him.
Cymothoa exigua is a parasite that enters fish through gills, attach itself to the fish’s tongue, and becomes its tongue. This photo perfectly represents a parasite doing exactly what he is called. Luckily they don’t attack humans, but we still wish we could help this fish!
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