Today, Zooillogix takes you deep inside Benny's colon to reveal a writhing round worm!
NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH WEAK STOMACHS
Ladies - Here's a tip. Benny is just as cute on the outside as the inside!
Thanks to Craig McClain for sharing?
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Category: worm
Posted on: April 4, 2008 6:59 PM, by ableiman
Today, Zooillogix takes you deep inside Benny's colon to reveal a writhing round worm!
NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH WEAK STOMACHS
Ladies - Here's a tip. Benny is just as cute on the outside as the inside!
Thanks to Craig McClain for sharing?
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Comments
for some reason this makes me think of wasabi, chopsticks and Kikoman soya sauce...
Posted by: milkshake | April 4, 2008 7:17 PM
What's a round worm doing on tape? Tape worms go on tape; roundworms go on CDs.
Posted by: chezjake | April 4, 2008 8:54 PM
if you eat it, it cures autism !!!!
Posted by: crf | April 5, 2008 2:55 AM
Chez made a funny.
Posted by: Zelly | April 5, 2008 10:57 AM
I wish you would have told us a bit more about this. There was no explanation on the video.
Who usually gets worms of this size? Does this look like the esophagus, or is it the intestine? Are these worms living in the stomach, in order to be coming up through the esophagus?
I found this very interesting, but as a biologist, I would like you to add some commentary just by way of your opinion, or suppositions looking at the video.
Eileen
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Posted by: Eileen | April 6, 2008 7:00 AM
Interesting, so what do these worms do? Eat our food as it goes down, or eat bits of us?
Chezjake - that made me laugh :D.
Posted by: Sean | April 6, 2008 8:23 AM
Ladies - Here's a tip. Benny is just as cute on the outside as the inside!
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