-Small fish, BIG tapeworm- Meet Ligula intestinalis, a widespread tapeworm with a complex life cycle involving a tiny copepod, a fish 🐟, and a bird🐦! It can be a little tricky for a parasite 🪱 to complete its life cycle when so many different hosts are required, but this tapeworm has some amazing strategies to achieve this! One way it makes its way from a fish host (with no desire to be caught) into its final host (the birds), is to master buoyancy! As the worm grows, and grows, and grows...(it can reach ~30% of the host's weight) it changes the buoyancy of the fish causing it to rise more easily to the surface of the water 💦. Because of this, the fish spends considerably more time at the surface and becomes an easy target for hungry birds! This allows the tapeworm to reach its final host when the fish is captures and eaten by a suitable bird species. 🆔@medical_vetparasitology
-Small fish, BIG tapeworm- Meet Ligula intestinalis, a widespread tapeworm with a complex life cycle involving a tiny copepod, a fish 🐟, and a bird🐦! It can be a little tricky for a parasite 🪱 to complete its life cycle when so many different hosts are required, but this tapeworm has some amazing strategies to achieve this! One way it makes its way from a fish host (with no desire to be caught) into its final host (the birds), is to master buoyancy! As the worm grows, and grows, and grows...(it can reach ~30% of the host's weight) it changes the buoyancy of the fish causing it to rise more easily to the surface of the water 💦. Because of this, the fish spends considerably more time at the surface and becomes an easy target for hungry birds! This allows the tapeworm to reach its final host when the fish is captures and eaten by a suitable bird species. 🆔@medical_vetparasitology
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