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Photo Quiz: A Human Parasite

Here is an easy one for you. This is a picture of a small part of a human parasite I took with a Celestron LCD Digital Microscope.
What is it?

Deer Ticks

As I was looking at a deer in my yard this afternoon, I noticed something on both of the doe's ears. It looked like ticks to me and after searching the web I found pictures of ticks on deer ears. The explanation is that the ear is the most difficult part of the deer to remove ticks by scratching. This obviously is true for dogs also(have pick many ticks off and around my dogs' ears). I don't think these ticks carry Lyme disease in our locale. I hope I am right or I may have a red halo around my next tick bite.

a case of the red ass

"My butt don't feel so good"

Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros

This woodcut was on a recent cover of JAMA. Durer is (as you know) THE most famous woodcut artist of all times. Interesting he never saw a rhino. So the armor plates are not real nor is the "Durer horn" on the back. A rhino did make it to Lisbon in 1515 not seen in Europe since Roman times. It is believable that people supposed that this was a unicorn(the possible sire of the methicorn).

Even though Durer's inaccuracies were obvious his woodcut remained in natural history texts for 200 years.