Jeremiah, Carl, Jr, and I were watching Animal Planet (because it is Jeremiah's second favorite channel, right behind the NHL Network) the other day. There was a program on about animals that go through transformations. As he had gone through a metamorphosis of his own when he was younger, Jeremiah was really enjoying the program. Then the program got to an animal that undergoes a more radical transformation than any other. A certain parasitic flatworm goes through four distinct stages in its life, the third of which being a cyst near the tail of a frog tadpole. To ensure the flatworm makes it to it's final life cycle in the intestinal tract of a bird, it messes up the frogs metamorphosis. Instead of dropping the tail and growing two legs, the flatworm causes the frog to sprout up to fifteen legs. With the extra legs the frog is unable to move and eaten by a crane.
The image of the 15 leg frog was disturbing enough to me, which is why I am not including a picture of it, but Jeremiah's reaction was close to unbelievable. He flipped over to his back then covered his mouth with his front legs to, I'm pretty sure, prevent himself from vomiting up his breakfast of crickets. I wish I had taken a picture but the camera was upstairs and by the time I got to it Big Cat Diary was on and Jeremiah had regained his composure.
Since we did not take any shots that day we decided to do a reenactment. CJ worked the camera.
Good times.
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