what is the gestation period of a tapeworm? what about squids?
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the tapeworm doesnt really have a gestation period. it just releases a segment of itself filled with eggs. then pass through the animals systemand are later consumed by other animals.also found this sight on squids it might help
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My brine's awash with possible theories. I haddock a few answers, but they all turned out to be damp squids. It's the sea air, it fogs the senses. Time to stop carping on . Ah whelk, i'll say tartar. Nothing newt there then.
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It may be that the stress of producing young is enough to do her in; cuttlefish are not exactly the most hardy critters.  Typically, most species only live about year or so, anyway, so they only go through a single breeding season before dying.\n\nAccording to the amateur breeder/enthusiast listed below, females can lay several clutches of eggs, and can live for months after egg laying.
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you'll know if you have a tapeworm if you keep eating and notice that it's not making you full, you aren't gaining weight, or you are losing weight...these symptoms are also reflective of other digestive diseases, however they are still common with a tapeworm.  \n\nParasitic infections usually affect your appetite and cause you to lose weight dramatically.  you are also extremely sensitive to the types of food your stomach can handle.
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They're big, and they're squiddy.  Do you have a specific area of knowledge you wish to address?\n\nThe scientific name of the Atlantic giant squid is Architeuthis dux.\n\nThey live in the dark depths of the ocean, and have the largest eyes of any living creature (about the size of a basketball).\n\nDead bodies of the giant squid have been caught by fishing trawlers or washed up on shore all over the world, from Newfoundland to the waters off New Zealand.  New Zealand seems to see the most of them, and it's speculated there may be a breeding grounds near there.\n\nUntil recently, no one had ever seen one alive, but a Japanese film crew managed to catch several minutes of footage of a live giant squid in the last year or so.\n\nThey are a favourite food of sperm whales, and the whales often have scars across their face and head from the wicked teeth that line the suckers along the giant squid's tentacles.  Sperm whale stomachs often have many undigested beaks of giant squid inside them.  This indicates the squid are probably fairly common in the right environment.\n\nThere is another species of squid, until recently known only from juveniles, whose body is actually longer and more massive than the giant squid's.  Dubbed the collosal squid, it has shorter tentacles than the giant squid, and the two long arms are outfitted with nasty looking hooks.  It's scientific name is Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni.
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Assuming you somehow managed to convince the host species to not reject the surrogate fetus (and keep it properly protected and nourished, a nigh-impossible task), the gestation period should be the same (9 months) as gestation is a function of the developmental progress of the fetus.  If, for some reason, the fetus was birthed prematurely you would not get a healthy baby.  Humans need 9 months in the womb to develop fully.
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Many illnesses have gestation periods that are longer that 3 to 5 days. You could be exposed but not get the symptoms until the illness reaches it's gestation stage.\n\nCalico.Kitty
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Answerer 1 and answerer 4 are both correct in the majority of squid species. However, in the giant squid, and some bodies have been found and dissected, the male contribution can be stored in the female body for a long period of time until she is in need of being fertilized. This is why giant squid are thought to be solitary animals unlike the majority of squid which have no ability nor any need to store anything because those are in large groups of squids constantly.
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Yes, pregnancy can happen. Sperm can live, mmmm, I forget, but I want to say 24-48 hr.\n\nI stand corrected, can't live out in the air, I guess, but I do know they sure can swim!
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DNA testing won't tell you their age.\n\nHowever, you can be sure that the eggs (called "nits") are less than 1 to 2 weeks old, because they hatch in that period of time.
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Fleas pass through a complete life cycle consisting of egg, larva, pupa and adult. A typical flea population consists of 50 percent eggs, 35 percent larvae, 10 percent pupae and 5 percent adults. Completion of the life cycle from egg to adult varies from two weeks to eight months depending on the temperature, humidity, food, and species. Normally after a blood meal, the female flea lays about 15 to 20 eggs per day up to 600 in a lifetime usually on the host (dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, mice, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, opossums, foxes, chickens, humans, etc.). Eggs loosely laid in the hair coat, drop out most anywhere especially where the host rests, sleeps or nests (rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, cat or dog boxes, kennels, sand boxes, etc.). Eggs hatch in two days to two weeks into larvae found indoors in floor cracks & crevices, along baseboards, under rug edges and in furniture or beds. Outdoor development occurs in sandy gravel soils (moist sand boxes, dirt crawlspace under the house, under shrubs, etc.) where the pet may rest or sleep. Sand and gravel are very suitable for larval development which is the reason fleas are erroneously called "sand fleas."\n\nThey do look like little worms when they are in the larvae stage.  Very little worms.
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Common Name: Giant Squid\nScientific name: Architeuthis dux\n\n Size \nRecord breaker: Largest recorded giant squid was 18 meters long (59.5 feet).  Its mantle was 5 meters (16.4 feet).  It weighed 1 metric ton.\nThe average size of the giant squid is 6 to 13 meters (19.7 to 42.7 feet) That is total length.  The mantle would be about 1 to 2.5 meters (3.2 to 8 feet).  The average weight is estimated to be 50 to 300 kg (110 to 661 pounds)\n Where are they found?  \nSquid in the genus Architeuthi are found in:  northern Atlantic , from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico; northern Norway to the Azores; northern Pacific from the Bering Sea to the Sea of Japan: southern Japan, Hawaii and California.  It is also found in the Southern Ocean.
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They hatch from eggs. At first they are little larvae (squiggly white wormy things), then they pupate, metamorphose, and emerge as flies.
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Of adult animals that have a spine (i.e. the vertebrates), the smallest one, with the shortest spine would probably be a male Stout Infantfish (Schindleria brevipinguis) which can be only 6.5 mm long (head to tail) when sexually mature.  The spine of the infantfish would be a bit shorter than that, taking into account the size of its head and tail.\n\nWhether or not you count larval fish (which can be microscopic) depends on whether or not you consider them to have a complete spine.
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If you mean laying eggs, then they can lay every day if they are well fed and taken care of.\n\nIf you mean incubation period, the egg will hatch in about 21 days.
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This is a long story so hold on and bear with me OK?\nThe lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium lanceolatum) belongs to the order Trematoda. Like other flukes, scientifically called trematodes, it as well shows a generation cycle with a change of reproduction as well as a change of hosts. The terminal host are mammals, usually sheep or goats. The distribute the fluke's eggs by their excrements on plants, on which snails feed. Those snails again are the intermediate host. . \nThose snails, mostly hygromiid snails of the species Helicella or enid snails (Zebrina), take in the flukes eggs together with their food. In the snail's digestive gland the fluke' first larval generation hatches. That generation is called miracidium. A miracidium is a simply built larva with few resemblance to the adult fluke. It is able to swim or at least to float by a ciliar crest. The miracidium makes a metamorphosis inside the snail, resulting in the next larval stage, that more resembles the adult fluke. The so called cercary has got a tail that propels it in the water. The cercaries change themselves in endurance stages called cystes, that the snails surrounds with a mucus layer and excretes them.\nRed ant (Formica rufa). Source: Manfred Eidelloth.   \nAnts eat those mucus balls (obviously the mucus contains also certain pheromones that makes it highly attractive to ants) and then are afflicted by the cercaries. The cercaries grow in the ants' abdomen (terminal body part) and then one of them moves into the head. There they afflict the ant's nervous system and cause a change of behaviour, that makes Bernard Werber *) call them "zombie ants". The ants now, very untypically, climb up plant stems and attach themselves with their mandibles to exposed positions such as leaves. Grazing mammals, such as sheep or goats, eat the plants together with the ants and then infect themselves with the lesser liver fluke. Inside this terminal host the cercaries change into the fluke's adult stage which reproduces sexually and then lays eggs that are excreted by the mammal -  the generation cycle is closed when the next snail eats the eggs.
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About one week depending on the species.