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Removing Parasite That Eats Fish Tongue! 😱(Cymothoa Exigua)-000 | AnneyHickman

Kenton Geer on Instagram: "Need some nightmare fuel? Check out this tongue-eating louse. Ever look in a peacock bass’s mouth and do a double take? That “tongue” might not be a tongue at all. It’s a tongue-eating louse — a parasitic isopod from the Amazon. It sneaks in through the gills, cuts off the blood supply, and the real tongue withers away. Then the parasite locks in and takes its place, acting like a living prosthetic. The fish keeps eating. The parasite keeps feeding. Nature doesn’t ask