fare—continued to use the original Germanic wordsox, swine, calf,andsheepwhen talking in the barnyard, and so the animals themselves have kept their native names to this day. One such Germanic word is actually related etymologically to its French counterpart.Cowcomes from Old Englishcū,which ...
This tapeworm is a cosmopolitan species in all temperate zone throughout the world and primarily infects rats but may rarely infect humans. Mice and dogs can also be infected. The adult tapeworms measure 20–60 cm up to 90 cm long. It has a cylindrical body with four suckers and an apic...
They don't have a mouth or digestive tract. Instead, they take in nutrients straight from their victims' intestines while adhering to them with a grabbing head that typically has hooks, suckers, or hooked tentacles. Over the course of their lives, each usually infects two or three h...