{"id":570,"date":"2015-04-20T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savedarwinsfrogs.org\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2024-06-23T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T14:55:42","slug":"leeches-leeches-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/2015\/04\/20\/leeches-leeches-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeches… leeches everywhere \/ Sanguijuelas…. sanguijuelas por todos partes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leeches are not uncommon encounters in the field.  Chile has both parasitic and non-parasitic terrestrial leeches.  One of the parasitic species is seen below feeding on a human.  One of the non-parasitic species (Americobdella valdiviana<\/em>) is depicted below\u2026this species eats earthworms.  They grow to nearly .3 meters in length (~ a foot in length).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Las sanguijuelas no son encuentros raros en el campo.<\/span> Chile tiene sanguijuelas terrestres tanto parasitarias como no parasitarias.<\/span> Una de las especies parasitarias se ve abajo aliment\u00e1ndose de un humano.<\/span> Una de las especies no parasitarias (Americobdella valdiviana<\/em>) se muestra a continuaci\u00f3n … esta especie come lombrices de tierra.<\/span> Crecen hasta casi .3 metros.
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Leeches are not uncommon encounters in the field.  Chile has both parasitic and non-parasitic terrestrial leeches.  One of the parasitic species is seen below feeding on a human.  One of the non-parasitic species (Americobdella valdiviana) is depicted below\u2026this species eats…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedarwinsfrogs.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}