You definitely got your coffee free. I’ve been doing a little reading, and there have also been cases of the candiru entering through the opening of the penis. Thanks for enlightening us with this exotic and fascinating creature. Maybe I’ll try to get more than coffee with that story.
AC
That was definately a free coffee but damn you adamcald if there’s a freakin prize!!
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Anyways, I remember first seeing this in the cheesiest of all cheese movies, Anaconda.
And I’ve had nightmares ever since.
She shoulda totally guessed true, most of the time if there is some horrifying tale involving a man’s penis, its true. We’re just lucky like that.
The first time I heard about the little critter was on the movie: The Runaway with The Rock.
Good job on getting the free coffee.
True mate.
I also heard it could also swim up a fairly steep stream. Say a stream of urine.
But this seems a bit wild.
I found out about in a book by a ex SAS survival instructor John Wiseman.
pretty much every movie in the jungle talks about this.
So I looked it up for this.
“When candirus parasitize humans, it is usually only when they are skinny-dipping while urinating in the water. The candiru tastes the urine stream and follows it back to the human. It then swims up the anus and lodges itself somewhere in the urinary tract with its spines.”
[quote]sugarfree wrote:
“… The candiru tastes the urine stream and follows it back to the human. It then swims up the anus and lodges itself somewhere in the urinary tract with its spines.”[/quote]
LOL I read the same passage. I think the writer is confused as the urethra leads to the urinary tract, and the anus…goes somewhere else i.e. if the fish enters your body through the anus, it will have a long trek getting to your urinary track (exit stage forward).