Giant flesh-eating leech filmed swallowing huge earthworm like spaghetti

[muriel_volestrangler]

The Giant Red Leech is one of the biggest in the world. The specimen captured on camera was around 30cm long but experts believe they could grow larger.

They have grown so big that they no longer simply suck blood but now actively hunt giant blue worms and suck them down like spaghetti. The worm it is eating is a whopping 78cm.
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When it encounters its prey it quickly latches on and moves its lips up and down the iridescent blue body.

"It was either searching for an end to grab, or was working out whether it was too big to eat” said documentary director Paul Williams.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/11123365/Giant-flesh-eating-leech-filmed-swallowing-huge-earthworm-like-spaghetti.html

Clip here (the BBC have gone for theremin background music, for that genuine 50s horror flick feel): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p027f9q0

via Why Evolution Is True

[TreasonousBastard]

1. OK, let's say God did create all this...

can you really love something that created a leech that sucks down 2 foot long worms?

[TexasProgresive]

3. We seem to appreciate the 1st robins of spring.

If they came across a 2 foot worm there would be singing.

[Sancho]

2. I think I'll stay away from Borneo!

[eppur_se_muova]

4. That's almost as impressive as New Zealand's giant carnivorous snails ...

... that lay hard-shelled eggs.