Friday, October 24, 2008

3 comments:

Jgray said...

Jordan gray
1.Mike Siddall
2.French, Guyana
3.The Giant Leach
4.Im heading into unspoiled marshes near the country's tropical coast.
5.To get to the swamps you have to hike through tropical forest.
6.Yes we are there. One to four feet of freshwater. The water is up to your waist and theres mosquitos everywhere.
7.There are piranha's with sharp teeth that can kill you. or you could see a capybara the largest rodent in the world.
8.They find you. Your the bait.
9.You won't feel it when it bites you because it injects a numbing anesthetic. They release and anitcoagulant(Hirudin) which prevents blood from clotting.
10.34 segments:gooey mucus texture: resembles a worm body structure.
11.Its hard to tell because they stretch out when there swimming and shorten when there feeding.
12.When stretched out it is 18 inches long: This leech is a giant Amazonian leech.
13.Helps the medical field and provides the chemical formula for hirudin.

JordanAlexandra said...

Jordan Bumpas
1.Mark Sidall
2.French Guyana
3.Amazonian leech
4.French Guyana;South American Coast
5.hiking to get to the swamp
6.yes; fill with one to four feet of freshwater in the wet season
7.Capaybara,world's largest rodent, & Camiman, pray it's the spectacled and not the black, which can reach over 20 feet in length
8.They'll find you
9.your waterlogged legs are desentizied;leeches dont bite, they stab,they inject anesthetic into you
10. ridges, 34 segments, each of which has its own brain(or ganglia)
11.length of a mans forearm; when they move, it enolgates its body by contracting the circular muscles, then 'shortens' its body by contracting the longitudal muscles
12.18 inches long & very fat
13.give them a place to live and medical reasons

Amber LeShae said...

*Amber LeShae Hodges*

1. Mark Siddall
2. French Guyana
3. Amazonian Leech (Great Leech)
4. French Guyana
5. to get to the swamp go through the woods
6. yes
7. electric fish or step into a pool of piranna
8. in the water
9. because it injects you with asesthetic which thins your blood to keep it from cloting
10. skinny worm: gets bigger when it sucks blood, 34 brians an 34 segments
11. hard to tell it contracts the longitudual muscles (mans forearm)
12. 18 inchs long.
13. to give them a safer place to live.

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