Animals Of The Forest: The Giant Gippsland Earthworm

By Forest · March 4, 2008 · 6 Comments · Categories: Animals & Pets ·

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Nobody likes me everybody hates me I think I’ll go and eat some worms.

My mum used to mockingly say this little saying to me when I was being a little annoying brat. I imagine she would have been very upset if I actually did eat some worms but I think, mortified if I ate one of these suckers.

I first heard about these amazing animals on a BBC or Channel 4 documentary that I watched and was fascinated. I couldn’t understand why I had never even heard of such a thing. Surely it is a school duty to teach children about the wonders of this world.

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Obviously the creator of Tremors has heard of them and maybe…….

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My name is Forest, I have been blogging and reading blogs for around 3 years now. The Random Forest was originally my daily diary but it evolved into much more than that and is now a daily multiple author blog of interesting and random news posts. You can also find me blogging about frugality and sustainable living over at my blog Frugal Zeitgeist.

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   Comedy Plus says:

   March 4, 2008 at 5:35 pm

   Yikes, huge is right. I had no idea there was a worm that large. Well, I guess almost everything critter wise is huge in Australia. You could fish with that baby all week long. Thanks for the information and have a great day.

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   Bush Mackel says:

   March 4, 2008 at 9:20 pm

   So you said that you’re going to try and keep Monday’s w/ the animal theme right? I love it! Great post and if I haven’t said it before, GL going forward. I know you’re putting a lot into it right now. *nod*

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   admin says:

   March 5, 2008 at 9:54 am

   @sandee, There are big worms (about 1m) in North America too. The big ones don’t bother me, it;s the little ones that can invade your body that really worry me!

   @Bush, Yep Monday is for animals. It’s fun because I get to learn stuff about something I like that isn’t tech or web based. Unless of course I do a post about the cybonetic, web surfing medium mice of Japan .

   Thanks for stopping by.

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   dawn says:

   March 5, 2008 at 1:24 pm

   LOL @ your mom! You must have been an annoying brat
   I promise not to hate the worm… but it’s pretty nasty looking! Interesting facts though… can’t say I didn’t learn anything today

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   Farming In Australia says:

   March 7, 2008 at 4:21 am

   Hello webmaster I found your blog via Google while searching for farming in australia and your post regarding ippsland Earthworm | The Random Forest looks very interesting to me

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   Love Animals says:

   March 9, 2008 at 7:49 am

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