A Nice Find

Last week in my Biology lab we were doing a dissection on Eumatazoans. My instructor decided to dissect a cat and show us how the lungs work.

The cats are harvested from Mexico City and are strays, which are vastly overrunning the city.

While dissecting, one of my classmates asked him to open the stomach in which he found several dozen worms. Generally they were about half an inch in length with light brownish bodies and a darker brown "head", though the colours may have been a result of the preservation fluid. I'm not sure what species they were though.

It makes me wonder what other parasites could be found in its body. Tapeworms, Spiny-headed worms, Hook Worms, Heart Worms, Flukes? Directly after he found those worms, I started looking for parasites in the intestines of a Dog Shark but to no avail.

Pictures may come later.