Kinabalu Giant Red Leech

Besides of multiple attempt hunter cannot get rid from them. The kinabalu giant red leech mimobdella buettikoferi is a large bright orange red coloured leech that is endemic to mount kinabalu borneo. 20th october 2012 was my 68th climb with 12 staff from star publications a graceful climb in the rain.

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For The First Time A Giant Red Leech Almost 20 Inches In Length

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It rained the whole day as we trekked the timpohon trail before finally reaching laban rata for food and a nap.

Kinabalu giant red leech. Looks like beautiful this is the very dangerous wild insects and hunt the tortoise. Kinabalu giant red leech. The holotype was collected by johann büttikofer and the specific. The kinabalu giant red leech will only attack and eat the kinabalu giant earthworm.

Similarly as the giant earth worm the kinabalu giant red leech can be found at 2 500 3 000 meters altitude whereby the trail. Kinabalu giant red leech mimobdella buettikoferi on mt kinabalu. Apparently it appears to feed on the giant grey blue kinabalu earth worm and live in damp earth and leaves in crack between the rocks. Eventually it finds an end to those 2 feet of worm body and then stretches its mouth open and begins to suck the worm in like a giant meaty spaghetti.

It can grow to a length of over 50 cm 20 in. October 26 2012 kinabaluguide leave a comment. Found in the island borneo near to mount kinabalu it is called as kinabalu giant red leech. The giant earthworm giant red leech of mount kinabalu.

In this video a bbc cameraman films it swallowi. The kinabalu giant red leech mimobdella buettikoferi lives in moist leaf mulch the forest floor in borneo. After found the hunter they search for their head and then eat like a noodles. It is known to the tribes of mount kinabalu as the giant red leech it was filmed for the first time by bbc filmmakers for the new series wonders of the monsoon the giant red leech is.

The leech finds its prey by sniffing out the mucus trail earthworms leave in their wake. This leech has a pretty weird party trick richard hartley parkinson monday 4 may 2015 11 54 am share this article via facebook share this article via twitter share this article via messenger. Once it catches up the leech runs its wet slimy mouth up and down the worm s wet slimy body. To start off the process of digestion the leech uses its 3 half moon shaped jaws which have many teeth.

The digestive system of a kinabalu giant red leech mimobdella buettikoferi the digestive system of a leech consists of four parts and is located on the upper side of its body apart from the mouth.