Warning: gross - giant leech fimed for first time

[summer]

I'm sorry iammalcolmx



io9.com/giant-worm-slurping-leech-filmed-for-the-first-time-1639845316/+DaynaEvans






For the first time, filmmakers in the forests of Borneo's Mount Kinabalu have documented the so-repulsive-it's-captivating behavior of a large, red, worm-guzzling predator. While it remains unclassified by science, the animal is known to the area's tribespeople, fittingly, as the "Giant Red Leech."

Allow me to introduce this brief but unsettling clip, recently captured by BBC filmmakers for the new series 'Wonders of the Monsoon,' by stating the obvious: Nature can be gross. Some of us appreciate this fact more than others. Speaking as someone who maintains a steady diet of strange, violent, and/or noxious nature footage, it usually takes a special kind of grotesquery to make me squirm. With that in mind, be apprised that this 90-second clip of a Giant Red Leech consuming the entire 70-cm length of a plump, glistening, iridescent earthworm had me making this face pretty much the entire time.

For more info, we turn to Sarah Knapton at The Telegraph:



The Giant Red Leech is one of the biggest in the world. The specimen captured on camera was around 30cm long but experts believe they could grow larger.



They have grown so big that they no longer simply suck blood but now actively hunt giant blue worms and suck them down like spaghetti. The worm it is eating is a whopping 78cm.



The new footage shows the leech detecting a worm's trail and following the scent like a sniffer dog.



When it encounters its prey it quickly latches on and moves its lips up and down the iridescent blue body.



"It was either searching for an end to grab, or was working out whether it was too big to eat" said documentary director Paul Williams.



"When it found an end it started to suck. It was incredible."

That this ambitious leech is roughly half the length of the worm it's eating only makes the footage more impressive.



A big thanks to Paul Williams and the Giant Red Leech for this fascinating footage – and for ruining spaghetti for everyone, forever.



BONUS: Compare the end-on technique of the Giant Red Leech with the side-bite employed by this Japanese Mountain Leech:

[decemberwedding07]

I can't unsee that. I should have heeded your warning.

[AJL]

[IIOY]

I am not watching your bullshit!

P.S. fuck you for posting this!

[AJL]

Sept 28, 2014 15:45:52 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I am not watching your bullshit!

P.S. fuck you for posting this!

I got a gif for that!

[iammalcolmx]

You tagged me in THIS SHIT? This means WAR!!! Wait till I retaliate

[summer]

It's SCIENCE. And BIOLOGY! I have to keep you informed on this!

you will love me again tomorrow.

[summer]

Sept 28, 2014 15:52:41 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

You tagged me in THIS SHIT? This means WAR!!! Wait till I retaliate

Come at me, bro! 

You can't beat giant worm sucking leeches!

[iammalcolmx]

Sept 28, 2014 15:57:02 GMT -5 summer said:

Sept 28, 2014 15:52:41 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

You tagged me in THIS SHIT? This means WAR!!! Wait till I retaliate

Come at me, bro! 

You can't beat giant worm sucking leeches!

A challenge eh? Hmmm let's see, I have your home address and they sell Euros at Atlanta airport. Hmmmmmm I can come at you!! Mess with me will ya!!.

[iammalcolmx]

Also I am messing with you about the Euros but I may give your kids Espressos next time I see ya!

[summer]

Sept 28, 2014 16:02:54 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Sept 28, 2014 15:57:02 GMT -5 summer said:

Come at me, bro! 

You can't beat giant worm sucking leeches!

A challenge eh? Hmmm let's see, I have your home address and they sell Euros at Atlanta airport. Hmmmmmm I can come at you!! Mess with me will ya!!.

Let's hug it out!

[WOT?*]

This is so nasty I am laughing in horror. Disgusting horror filled inappropriate laughter.

[gpw]

Seriously, summer. You are damaged.

WHY WOULD YOU POST THIS?!?!?

[sushi]

I saw this earlier and thought it was so cool.

Yes i am under the care of a shrink, why do you ask?

[Deleted]

It looks like penis.

Oh shut up, you know you thought so too.

[sushi]

Sept 28, 2014 21:18:45 GMT -5 @helenabonhamcarter said:

It looks like penis.

Oh shut up, you know you thought so too.

Of course i did. I just have enough class not to say it aloud

[Deleted]

Sept 28, 2014 22:13:53 GMT -5 sushi said:

Sept 28, 2014 21:18:45 GMT -5 @helenabonhamcarter said:

It looks like penis.

Oh shut up, you know you thought so too.

Of course i did. I just have enough class not to say it aloud

What are you saying?

[jln]

I love this kind of stuff. Gross, awesome, nature.

[Knight]

Sept 28, 2014 21:18:45 GMT -5 @helenabonhamcarter said:

It looks like penis.

Oh shut up, you know you thought so too.

There goes my sex life.

[pixy0stix]

[Deleted]

So I pulled out a ruler because I'm from 'murica and I don't do centimeters. No one else is disturbed by the fact that it was eating a 2.5 ft worm?

There are worms out there that are two and a half feet long people. And leeches over a foot long. I can't handle this shit.

[IIOY]

GODDAMIT PEOPLE

[WOT?*]

I showed it to Kiddo. She says "Yuck, with a capital Y!" Is someone going to call CPS on me?