It’s a parasite that causes snails to get to higher places and get eaten by birds where it reproduces in their digestive system.
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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
Can someone explain please
Maultasche@feddit.de 6 months ago
elbucho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
God damn, Nature. You scary.
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
Are the birds negatively affected by the wormies?
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Their eyes don’t pulse out of their heads, if that’s what you mean.
mp3@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
tl:dr; nightmare stuff
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
That is fucking gross!
Kraiden@kbin.run 6 months ago
nature is metal
flora_explora@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Nature is everything
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
Your right, I looked it up and I wish I didn’t
atro_city@fedia.io 6 months ago
His right or your right?
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yes.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
Fungus takes over ants
notabot@lemm.ee 6 months 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 6 months ago
That’s why momma always reminded us:
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 months ago
I hate you now!
Wutchilli@feddit.de 6 months 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 6 months ago
This is a good place to leave this link to a nice folk song about parasites
azi@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Toxoplasma gondii is a microscopic bug, who carries on genius in its genes
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
so that’s why guys who like cats are generally friendly anarchists
HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 months 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 6 months ago
Real-life ant clickers.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
based parasite makes dudes anarchists
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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 6 months ago
image your best friend becomes a zombie…
lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 months ago
Like Shaun of the Dead? That wasn’t too bad
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
???