| Subject: | Re: PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Barberpole Worm
| | Date: | Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:22:45 -0600
| | From: | Pennyaline <candyapple@caramel.corn>
| | Newsgroups: | rec.birds,rec.food.cooking,alt.nature.mushrooms,rec.animals.wildlife,sci.misc,alt.animals.goats
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Jack Schmidling wrote:
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> Also known as the Stomach Worm, it is a common parasite of sheep and
> other ungulates (cud chewers). It gets it's name from the lateral red
> striping which makes it look like a barber pole.
Ungulates, or ungulata, are simply any of the hooved mammals. Ruminates
are cud chewers.
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