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NATURE & GASTRONOMY

 

 

 

  taak (leech)

 

Vietnam

This bloodsucking, worm-like, invertebrate and hermaphrodite animal is a leech (fig.), and is in Thai referred to as taak. This terrestrial species, spotted in Bach Ma National Park (fig.), has the scientific Greek-Latin binomial name Haemadipsa interrupta.

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