Todd Crail <farmertodd_at_buckeye-express.com> wrote:
Lamprey fun found at:
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/list/mike/
Nick, I have your snake and longear pics at:
http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/list/nick/
Probably want to start other threads with them, but I finally got to them ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Sandel"
To:
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Re: lamprey attack-Pics
> I forget which Petromyzon species this was, I can find out though. We
worked the KY river last summer, he had no qualms about attaching to us. He
was electroshocked, contained in a stainless tub, and obviously stressed,
but this does demonstrate that Petro's are capable of attaching to humans. I
was smiling in the picture, but not after many failed attempts at removing
him. His teeth are sharp! but he was obviously not interested in feeding at
this time, maybe defense mech...Hope these files aren't too big, not
familiar with the compressing stuff.
> Michael Sandel
>
>
> Dave Neely wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Southern Hemisphere lampreys don't behave like most of the North American
> species. Adults of both of the two parasitic Australian lampreys (Geotria
> australis and Mordacia mordax) use the denticles on the tongue to shear
off
> chunks of flesh, and don't feed just on fluids like Petromyzon,
> Ichthyomyzon, etc. Geotria is supposedly almost exclusively a
flesh-feeder.
> They're fast, too. My boss collected some last year, and in the process of
> taking some pictures of a large adult, it attached to his thumb and took a
> large chunk of tissue out of it (I wish somebody would have gotten video
of
> this...)!
>
> cheers,
> Dave
> --
> St. Louis, MO
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