The maggots! . . . Once, when she was six or seven, Magdalena had come upon a little dead dog,
a mutt, on a sidewalk in Hialeah. A regular hive of bugs was burrowing into a
big gash in the dog’s haunch—only these weren’t exactly bugs. They looked more
like worms, short, soft, deathly pale worms; and they were not in anything so
orderly as a hive. They were a wriggling, slithering, writhing, squiggling,
raveling, wrestling swarm of maggots rooting over and under one another in a
heedless, literally headless, frenzy to get at the dead meat. She learned later
that they were decephalized larvae. They had no heads. The frenzy was all they had. They didn’t have
five senses, they had one, the urge, and
the urge was all they
felt. They were utterly blind.
Let´s deal today with a nasty topic. Science sometimes stains and it is
disgusting. Even the ugliest creature with a nasty job is important for the
ecosystems. Detritivis ( named in this way because they eat detritus) are
fundamental to the food chain.
Every child has some time found a earthworm digging the soil. This
moment is very important for the later man, because he can react in two different ways to this
discovery. The boy with Animal Fisiology Aptitudes gazes with attention and
even tries to touch the earthworm with a little stick. The boy without Animal
Fisiology Aptitudes doesn’t play again with the sand for a long time.
Earthworms are able to concentrate the snake´s revulsion but without
their majesty
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