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Kyambura Gorge
September 2013
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Kyambura Gorge
September 2013
 
@ Monty - it was just sitting on the ground, all full and bloated.

@DAVID - I don't know if it's a new species - I threw it away.

But I'm gonna go to the bathroom mirror and shine a torch up my nose right now!
 
@UngulateNerd92 No, to be honest I never even tried! But the ranger I showed it to called it a cattle tick.
 
@Hix I gotcha. If it were me, I would have dropped it in a jar of alcohol if I had access and donated it to a museum to keep in their invertebrate zoology department. That was such a fascinating specimen.
 
@UngulateNerd92 As this was in a Wildlife Reserve where all wildlife is protected - including the ugly parasites - and considering I was part of a tour group, not a scientific excursion, and I didn't have any alcohol with me, it was out of the question.
Had circumstances been different, I would certainly have seen it as a potentially valuable specimen. :P
 

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