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Saturday, July 17, 2004 :::

Wonders of the animal kingdom, volume II

Today's lesson: why not to pee in lakes and rivers

Ammonia [found in urine] becomes like a signal to these candiru catfish that there's food out there. If you pee in the water and these little catfish are around, they can enter the human body... they probably get up to four or five inches long. They have very little nubbins for pectoral fin spines... and they're completely covered in mucus. They'll just worm their way right up there... they've been known to go in and actually chew their way into the testicles.



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