I was writing and uploading photos of our pythal mala (hill) trip. Finally I ended up uploading too many photos of the leeches from that area and thought of posting them in a seperate thread. 🙂
This guy managed to suck some blood. (you can see pythal mala in the background.)
Leech bite: Thats Divakarettan. Our jeep driver. The poor chap was never bitten by a leech before.
They love posing for photos
My friend and divakarettan was complaing about me not getting ‘attacked’ by the leeches. They were of the opinion that I have “vatham” and thats why the leeches are not biting me. To speak the truth, I have been bitten on a daily basis during my lower primary school days. Anyway finally one tiny monster managed to bite me. Wikipedia tells me that leeches injects an anti-cogulant agent called hirudin and thats why its bleeds so annoyingly. oh yea, the bleeding is enough to scare the shit out of an ‘inexpericed’ person. So next time, when you are bitten by a leech don’t worry, get a small piece of paper and put it in the wound. It will stop bleeding immedeatly.
bleed.
nice shot. Can you release the licence under CC for using it in wiki?
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hmm still they bit me..i was drunk…
good work!
Yuck !
hahaha – leeches sure are picky…but once they like a place …they grab on real tight!!! (had the misfortune myself!)
nice shot!…
man, i cancels my plan for pythal mala !
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hi freebird 🙂
thank you for ur comment .. I appreciate
Urkh… I had some while walking in Nepal during the rainy saison… By chance it’s not painful and doesn’t leave any mark on the skin.
Simply an impressive one..
I cant believe it but the whole photos in the sequence are so much impressive…
a very dreaded shot…
~M~
u drink ? 😉
its told that leeches bite people with impure blood… :):):)
said that… i had got lots of leech bites !!!
no … thats divakarettan’s (our jeep driver’s) leg
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Seen on your photo stream. (?)
Was it ur hand by any chance??..I have only heard about it..!!