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Also, they famously carry a huge number of parasites. This just seems normal for the species, similar to how sloth fur supports a variety of organisms.

• thaumasiotes 2y ago
  It's normal for all species, humans included. We generally aren't carrying large loads of parasites, but that's not because not doing so is normal. It's because we put tremendous effort into getting rid of them. This is one of the theories for why human body temperature seems to have lowered since the measurement was standardized at 37 C. There was a poem written about the phenomenon: Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em And little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum
  • DFHippie 2y ago
    The version I recall has "upon their knees to bite 'em". Maybe my juvenile brain made up that internal rhyme the better to remember it.
  • dang 2y ago
    Written by de Morgan of de Morgan's Laws! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem) But he lifted the genius part of it from Jonathan Swift.
  • sandworm101 2y ago
    But there is also a scientific measurement if parasite load. Not all species carry an equal amount.
  • ahazred8ta 2y ago
    Turbulence: Great whirls have lesser whirls, that feed on their velocity / and lesser whirls have lesser still, and so on to viscosity.