Sometimes a high-pitched shrill would slice the silence when one would bite another with its tongue. But somehow the wild herd keeps to its boundaries, propped tightly from each side by a few rows of organised lizards with golden accessories.
The largest division of this army is spread wide to the horizon and at the first glance it looks like a slimy, moving brown mass. Only looking closer, I’m able to see the tangled mess of millions and millions of brown worms, sliding, crawling over each other.
Dozens of stacked rings of secreted brown skin cover their bodies, flexing with each move. The worms’ tubular naked bodies are gigantic – not your average-sized earthworm. These are five to six feet long and as large as small dolphins.
And when I think they’re just over-inflated earthworms, a
