Nov 10, 2003 15:27
I feel extremely pungent...but I don't care.
Yay for studying for Unifed and Russian and everything else in between.
"Two types of 'whale lice' (actually minute crustaceans) cling to [the narwhal's] skin, in the cavitiy where the tusk passes through the lip, in the tail notch in the flukes, and in wounds (all places where they are least likely to be swept off by the flow of water past the narwhal's body). The tracks of the sharp, hooked legs of these tiny creatures are sometimes very clear on a narwhal's skin. Older animals may carry such infestations of these parasites as to cause an observer to wince."
--Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
And you don't hear the narwhals complaining...