Leeches
While we were walking through the jungle, we were attacked by leeches as we crossed the streams. They basically wait for meat (my leg) to walk by and then latch on and suck blood out. This is a small one. I found one earlier in the day that had been sucking on my leg for a while. It was fat and red. :)
The most interesting thing is that they use some kind of chemical to prevent the blood from clotting, so after you remove them from your wound, the blood doesn't clot and keeps bleeding out like a river.
posted by Jimmy at
9:05 AM
5 Comments:
i am SO grossed out by that picture. along with roller coasters, i am terrified of leeches.
are they hard to pull off once they're fat and have been sucking on your juice for a while?
i have a fear that one day, i'm going to have blood clotting issues & they're going to have to use leeches to thin out the blood.
uuuugh!
you should let them keep sucking until they explode, make sure you take a picture of that Jim
if you take a cigarette or a just burned match and touch it to them, they let go willingly and you bleed less.
hahaha
Thanks for the advice Andy.
We call it GUMURI in Korean.
It is everywhere, small streams and specially rice farms with water. After detach it from the skin, we usually kill it or, with thin narrow stick, push it from head to toe and make it inside out. Some people use it to treat some diease make it suck the bad blood.
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