Well, anus drinking. I’ll leave it to you whether it is worse than Cymothoa exigua.
This creature has found its unique purpose in feeding off the anuses of hippopotamuses (anii of hippopotami if Latin wasn’t your forte). It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it.
Best name/thread title combo I’ve seen in a while!
And no, not opening that link TYVM :eek:
Great title for a pit thread.
Yeah, not so good for a deli.
Actually, the plural is simply ani
No reason to have two eyes in your rear end.
Mike Rowe says “Fuck ya’ll. This is where I draw the line.”
Yer missin’ out. Interesting non-gross pix & words at both links.
If you think about it a bit … If you were a leech and were trying to find a place on a hippo that was soft enough to dig your teeth / anchoring scraper into, where would you look? Hippos are pretty well armored except at two points, the entrance and the exit. You’re a lot less likely to be eaten if you homestead the exit. And there’s a steady source of pre-digested food. Sounds like easy living. If you’re a leech.
To quote (appropriately for once) Powdered Toast Man, “Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!”
Since hippos also sweep their paddly tails like a mad sweeping paddly thing as they crap, it takes even more tenacity to (A) keep clinging amid a hippo shit-storm, and (B) while being battered by a madly flailing hippo paddle-tail.
Much props. “Life finds a way”, but I’m glad it’s not my way.
ETA: the article makes the same point I make:
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Once inside, the leech latches on with two suckers. At the back of its body, the more bulbous end, is a big sucker, while at the front is a smaller sucker. And it’s got to be real sure it can keep a tight grip, for hippo BMs can be rather … explosive: They flap their tails back and forth to fling dung all over the place.
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Ninja’d by the source material.
So, throw in a tape worm and you’ll have both ends and the middle covered.
Yeah, don’t be greedy. One is enough.
I was going for the same thought process that leads people to pluralize “virus” as “virii” for some reason. I guess because “Viri” sounds like an Apple or Nintendo product.
Ooh, interesting link (for the rest of the yokai, not just Goatse-san).
I skimmed the title and read it as “Prehensile rectum eating lunch.” I don’t know which is worse.
I’m keeping an eye on this thread so I can use it in “Where are sequential threads of yesteryear…” I got dibs on it.
Too late. We’re all over it already.
Okay, I’m late to the game, but I got one in.
…or as the comic book introduction to the side-kick of Fart Man.
Ironically, the plural of virus is not viri, either. It has no attested plural in Classical Latin (being a mass noun, meaning slime or poison), and its it’s not really possible to figure out what it should be from similar words, as it’s an irregular word to start with. Latin is a PITA language. >_>
I love that site so much. Japanese monsters are just so damn interesting.
Normally I have a horror of parasites, but in this case I don’t know which has it worse, the hippo or the leech.
There are a number of You Tube videos of defecating hippos. Some of them have even gone viral.
Let’s just say they make a really big mess while they’re doing this.