The biggest and most amazing in the world earthworm

Despite their frightening appearance, giant gipslend completely bezobiden



80 cm long, 2, 5 cm thick, no legs, crawling on the ground - what is it? Do not guessed, this is not a snake - a worm. Giant gipslendy found in Gipslend town in south-eastern Australia, is the largest earthworm in the world. If this worm will be extended to its full length, it can reach two meters.

These creeping giants - surprisingly gentle creatures. Find them quite difficult, as most of their lives they spend deep underground, and the higher the water content in the soil, the easier they breathe. Their burrows are quite deep - often these worms live at depths of 7, 5-13 cm below ground, sometimes heavy rains forced them to get out to the surface. Their burrows can be found in places where the landslide came down recently.





Gipslendy pretty fragile - careless handling could kill them. For the life suits them just moist soil of a certain type. If you pass through the land of their burrows filled with water, they react to the vibration of your footsteps - will crawl and publishing squishing sounds pretty easy to hear. So even if we take into account that the giant gipslendy are rare, you will know that they are next to you.

Giant gipslendy lay huge egg-pods, similar to the brown bean pods. The worm lays only one egg at a time, and that from it hatched cub, leaves the whole year. Cubs giant gipslendov reach 18 cm in length, and to grow to a maximum length, they take about five years. It is not known how long they live, but according to preliminary estimates by age 20.





Despite its impressive size, the giant gipslendov in Australia a bit due to the fact that their homes are easy to destroy, and they reproduce slowly. Worms are listed in the Red Book of endangered species as vulnerable.

via factroom.ru

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