It’s a parasite that causes snails to get to higher places and get eaten by birds where it reproduces in their digestive system.
Comment on Carl?
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
Can someone explain please
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The snail has been taken over by parasitic flatworms that control it to seek out exposed spots and pulsate inside of their eye stalks to get eaten by a bird and enter the next stage of their life cycle, which they spend by living in the birds cloaca and spreading their eggs via feces.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Are the birds negatively affected by the wormies?
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Their eyes don’t pulse out of their heads, if that’s what you mean.
mp3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
tl:dr; nightmare stuff
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
That is fucking gross!
Kraiden@kbin.run 1 year ago
nature is metal
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Nature is everything
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Trust me. You don’t want to know. It’s fucked up parasite shit. On the same level as the fungus that takes over ants.
Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Your right, I looked it up and I wish I didn’t
atro_city@fedia.io 1 year ago
His right or your right?
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yes.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
Fungus takes over ants
notabot@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’ll be Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. It invades the ant’s brain and causes it to leave it’s nest and go somewhere better for the fungus then wait to die as the fungus errupts from its head.
If we’re talking about nightmare mind control horrors, we shouldn’t forget our old friend toxiplasmosis gondii, which infects rodents, then alters their behaviour so they’re not afraid of cats, in particular. This leads to the rodent getting eaten so the parasite can infect the cat, which is the only place it can reproduce, before spreading from the cat faeces back into the rodent population. It can also infect humans where there is evidence that it affects behavior too, particularly making males more careless of rules.
Sleep well.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s why momma always reminded us:
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
I hate you now!
Wutchilli@feddit.de 1 year ago
And those little things might make you kinky. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/…/1474704916659746 (One of my favorit papers because a friend of mine got them)
merari42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is a good place to leave this link to a nice folk song about parasites
azi@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Toxoplasma gondii is a microscopic bug, who carries on genius in its genes
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
so that’s why guys who like cats are generally friendly anarchists
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Wait they can effect humans now?!?! And they’re capable of understanding rules enough to get us to actively break them!?!?!?
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Real-life ant clickers.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
based parasite makes dudes anarchists
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s a thing that exists in real life that was essentially used as the base premise (but for humans) in The Last Of Us.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
image your best friend becomes a zombie…
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 year ago
Like Shaun of the Dead? That wasn’t too bad
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
???