Comments on: Tongue-Eating Fish Parasites Never Cease to Amaze http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/ A science salon hosted by National Geographic Magazine Wed, 22 May 2013 17:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha By: leanne http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-47604 leanne Thu, 02 May 2013 22:56:48 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-47604 My friend doesnt believe me on this so thanks now I can say I’m right but it makes me iffy on eating cod tongues now but meh there amazing

]]> By: Ralph Dratman http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-47549 Ralph Dratman Thu, 02 May 2013 01:30:40 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-47549 Forget what I said about a possible deity. No dice, because I just located this: http://io9.com/5890093/fishing-linked-to-higher-percentage-of-tongue+eating-blood+drinking-mouth-leeches-from-hell

Let us hope the post I just linked is totally wrong. Stupid writer, imagining that OUR FISHING IS DESTROYING THE OCEANS. That just can’t be true… please? No, really, please. I don’t want to see the end of oceans as we know them, within my lifetime. I really don’t.

]]> By: Ralph Dratman http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-47546 Ralph Dratman Thu, 02 May 2013 01:14:45 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-47546 I cannot help wondering whether this particular parasite might be infecting more fish these days in our damaged oceans. Does anyone know whether this little monster has been playing the tongue game throughout recorded history (I hope so) or whether, rather, this is only a recently-observed pattern (please, deity, if any, let this not be new)… ?

]]> By: Alex http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-46939 Alex Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:10:30 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-46939 Yucks.. we were just eating some fried fish and found that parasite in our food… No fish anymore

]]> By: Zsarina Beatriz L. De Luna http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-45925 Zsarina Beatriz L. De Luna Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:49:36 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-45925 It’s amazing how this works. I wonder, is there further study showing how long the host would live when the parasite is still inside it?

]]> By: jacqueline patart http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-44630 jacqueline patart Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:49:08 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-44630 intéressante nature mais … étrange expropriation de territoire !

]]> By: Ralph Dratman http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-44228 Ralph Dratman Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:27:23 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-44228 I hope some of these unfortunate fish can find their way to a cleaning station: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_stations

]]> By: Ralph Dratman http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-44183 Ralph Dratman Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:00:59 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-44183 @Jim, I must tell you that I would not be very optimistic about having chimps in charge of our world.

]]> By: Jim http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-44123 Jim Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:47:02 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-44123 And that explains how humans came about. Aliens hosted with chimps. Only problem is the experiment eventually failed since we’re dumber than chimps based on how we treat the planet.

The above comment is tongue-in-cheek, take it for what its worth. :)

]]> By: Ralph Dratman http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/28/tongue-eating-fish-parasites-never-cease-to-amaze/#comment-43455 Ralph Dratman Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:06:01 +0000 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/?p=152908#comment-43455 I agree with *shudder* about this thing! The idea of it is so awful. At least this nightmare only happens to fish! Not to us.

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