French band Tapeworms fell in love with Japan, got stranded by COVID, and returned years later with a dreamy new album that draws on Japanese cultural nostalgia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/04/11/music/french-band-tapeworms-tokyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #music #tapeworms #band #picopop #shibuyakei
Parasite of the Day: Anoplocephala gorillae https://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/04/anoplocephala-gorillae.html
Anoplocephalid #tapeworms in #MountainGorillas inhabiting the #VolcanoesNationalPark, #Rwanda: Barbora Červená et al. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/parasitology/article/anoplocephalid-tapeworms-in-mountain-gorillas-gorilla-beringei-beringei-inhabiting-the-volcanoes-national-park-rwanda/6F911F5BB08C4A539D8B1811D57AA568
"how do the #gorillas end up with all those tapeworms in the first place? They have to go through an intermediate host, which is usually a prey #animal. But since gorillas are #herbivores, how can tapeworms gain entry into their guts?"
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Parasite of the Day: Veneriserva pygoclava
http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/03/veneriserva-pygoclava.html
Hardly Venus’s servant—morphological adaptations of Veneriserva to an endoparasitic lifestyle https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-023-00633-8
"over the course of its #evolution, #Veneriserva has ended up with a body plan which is very similar to that of #tapeworms... This 'attachment organ + loads of gonads' type of body plan that they have both independently evolved is also found in other internal #parasites."
