Comment on Carl?

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Your right, I looked it up and I wish I didn’t

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    • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      His right or your right?

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      • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Yes.

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Fungus takes over ants

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    • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        That’s why momma always reminded us:

        Be kind, they may harbor a latent Toxoplasma gondii infection that could subtly influence their behavior and personality.

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      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I hate you now!

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      • Wutchilli@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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)

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      • merari42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        This is a good place to leave this link to a nice folk song about parasites

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      • azi@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Toxoplasma gondii is a microscopic bug, who carries on genius in its genes

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        so that’s why guys who like cats are generally friendly anarchists

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Wait they can effect humans now?!?! And they’re capable of understanding rules enough to get us to actively break them!?!?!?

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Real-life ant clickers.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        based parasite makes dudes anarchists

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    image your best friend becomes a zombie…

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Like Shaun of the Dead? That wasn’t too bad

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      • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        ???

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• Maultasche@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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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  • elbucho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    God damn, Nature. You scary.

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• anyhow2503@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Are the birds negatively affected by the wormies?

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Their eyes don’t pulse out of their heads, if that’s what you mean.

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• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  tl:dr; nightmare stuff

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-4f41Gaf8

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That is fucking gross!

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  • Kraiden@kbin.run ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    nature is metal

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Nature is everything

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