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Comment nice evolutionary path that.... (Score 1) 103

"O. robertsi adults inhabit the snakes' esophagus and stomach and release their eggs in the snakes' feces. From there, the eggs are picked up by small mammals that the snakes feed upon. The larvae develop and establish in the small mammals, growing quite long despite the small size of the animals, and the worm's life cycle is complete when the snake eats the infected prey."

Soo-- small mammals eat snake shit, that is composed of undigested material of their own ancestors-in order to pass the eggs along to the next snake when it's their turn do so--

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