Chicken Carcass stripped by Sea Lice
Chicken Carcass stripped by Sea Lice!
It's like a scene from a horror movie, where piranha strip flesh from a body!
It took the swarm of sea lice about 4 hours to achieve.
Here's a captive sea louse on the pier.
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Photos:
- captive sea louse on the pier
- chicken carcass stripped by sea lice
update 2009.04.26: Sea Louse - Museum of Victoria
Natatolana woodjonesi
Species of the family Cirolanidae are often very common. Active at night when they swim, they can reduce a dead fish to a skeleton in a few hours.
Not the salmon feeding copepod marine parasite i previously thought they were...