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Chapter 10

MONKEYS AND MAGGOTSOR PARASITES FOR PEACE

Howler les of Central A bone that amplifies their cries - hence the nah they&039;re only two feet tall, you can hear a howler monkey scream froot screorles as howler monkeys Screwflies look pretty er They aren&039;t parasites themselves, but their babies are

When it comes time to have baby flies, screwflies look for a wounded s in They&039;re not picky about what kind of e wound Even a scratch the size of a flea bite is plenty big

When the eggs hatch, the larvae - also known by such charry As they grow, they begin to devour the flesh around theots are very fussy and only eat dead flesh, so they&039;re not a problem for their host They can actually help to clean the wounds that they hatch into In a pinch, doctors still use ots to sterilize the wounds of soldiers

But screorots - are anotherthey can get their teeth into As they devour the ani s hatch, and the wound gets even bigger

E Yuck Repeat

At the end of this cycle is a painful death fora e of peace

Like all primates, howler monkeys wanta howler monkey fun So they compete with one another for these resources - in other words, they get into fights

But no et, howler monkeys never use their teeth or claws Even if one of the er, all it ever does is slap the other one around and (of course) howl a lot

You see, it&039;s just not worth it to get into a real fight Because even if the sets its et in one tiny scratch, and the fight becomes a lose-lose proposition One little scratch, after all, is all a screwfly needs to lay its eggs inside you

Many scientists believe that the howlerability because of screor and biting (and getting bitten and scratched in return) were eaten from within by screorenes

Eventually, all that was left in the jungle were non-scratchy monkeys Survival of the fittest, which in this case were the non-scratchiest

But there were still ht over, so the non-scratchySurvival of the loudest And that&039;s hoe got howler monkeys

See? Parasites aren&039;t all bad They take pri one another and leave the