How would you feel if someone bite your tongue?And if anyone would bite your tongue until it bleeds and drink his blood?!?And IF someone did this until the movement of his tongue was interrupted?And if someone did THAT UNTIL YOUR tongue fall?AND IF AFTER YOUR TONGUE fall, THAT ‘this’ take the place YOUR TONGUE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
The Cymothoa exigua, that could well be the evil alien in any fiction film, is a parasite that gets into the fish’s mouth and sticks his tongue in like a tick. From there go taking their food in blood until the tongue of the poor fish atrophy and nasty critter takes over becoming the gustatory organ. This is the only known case of a parasite that replaces an organ in another animal.
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