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Reaching out to you!
This Tiger Leech - Haemadipsa picta can be found in the plenty at this park. It doesn't matter if its day/night time or rain or no rain. Along the trails of the park, they are in hundreds, if not thousands and it can feels like something from a horror movie.
This one is particular was trying to reach out to me. They usually hang out on leafs just on the side of trails and when they sensed heat, they starts reaching out and if they feel they are close enough, they would even let go to drop to you.
Aside from the continuous blood flow if they get to bite you, this bites from tiger leech may leaves you feeling severely itchy for days and weeks!
During all my walks in the Park, I had to be fully covered, including wearing hat, gloves and applying menthol-based lotions on my face and neck as I noticed they don't like the stings of menthol.
''Haemadipsa picta'' is a large terrestrial leech found in Borneo, Indochina, and Taiwan. It was described by John Percy Moore based on specimens collected from Sarawak, Borneo. It preys primarily on medium- to large-sized mammals, including humans.
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Will post the video later to You Tube and add it here. Posted 8 years ago
Do agree with you, its really creepy! Posted 8 years ago
What I remember most from that experience is the great amount of respect the locals had for life in general. Where we were quick to remove a leech and perhaps step on it to end it, they would just take it and put it back on another path, letting it carry on with soul sucking other mammals. Posted 8 years ago
Posted 8 years ago