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Mon 13 Sep, 2004 08:21 pm
Hey everyone.. im a biology major at school and i love sharks and i hope to do studies on sharks when i get out in the working world... the shark i really want to study is the Goblin shark, and i have dont projects and so forth on them... i know the basics, they have a hingable jaw... they are found in the middle areas of the ocean... they have never been found alive... they just the basics... i was wondering though if any of you out there happen to know more about these eluvise creatures...
Thanks Mister! very informative... do you find a fasination in sharks as well?
A kind of negative fascination, Seed. I group them with spiders and bot flies, psychologically.
what do you mean by that? what are bot flies?
'The Torsalo (or "human bot fly") is a member of the family Oestridae. It is native to the New World tropics where it is regarded as a pest because its larvae burrow under skin and live as internal parasites of warm-blooded animals. Torsalos are the only species of bot fly that manage to regularly parasitize humans.'
SEE HERE, SEED.
Here are some disgusting pictures of bot flies, larvae and wounds if you're interested Seed.
http://botfly.quiik.com/gallery.html
By the way, I admire the way you circumvented the asterisk, Cav.
yes those are quite disgusting Cav. i noticed the bot fly prefered to lay its larva in the eye of the human... why is that? is it that its the only part of the body that is able to get to or what?
'Circumventing the Asterisk' may just be the title of my first novel. I believe the bot fly can infect any part of the human body. If one is heavily clothed, the eye is accessible and an easy target, I suppose. Some scientists actually allow bot flies to infect them, so they can get specimens of the larva to study. I think that is taking one's job too seriously.
thats what you call dedication to a sickening degree... blah
I would agree there seed.
just gotta love those willing to push the limits and vomit huh?
so was i correct with the name of the fish cav?
You are on an interesting journey Seed....
whats makes you say that? I did a report on these guys back in highschool but never got a chance to follow it up... im just trying to find more info on them because i think they are truely interesting and of course little is know about them really...
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