Fungus takes over ants
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CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 1 month agoTrust me. You don’t want to know. It’s fucked up parasite shit. On the same level as the fungus that takes over ants.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 month ago
notabot@lemm.ee 1 month 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 month 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.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 month ago
I hate you now!
notabot@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Oh come now, there are so many more interesting parasites that mess with your brain for their own benefit; Trypanosoma which messes with your sleep before slowly killing you, Naegleria fowleri that just straight up eats your brain and a host of others that do weird and wonderful things.
Look at it this way; before you were surrounded by mind controlled ants, suicidal rodents and other such horrors without even knowing it. Now you do know about them. What’s that? I’m really not helping? Ok, I’ll stop.
Wutchilli@feddit.de 1 month 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 month ago
This is a good place to leave this link to a nice folk song about parasites
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
so that’s why guys who like cats are generally friendly anarchists
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Wait they can effect humans now?!?! And they’re capable of understanding rules enough to get us to actively break them!?!?!?
notabot@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I don’t think they understand ‘rules’, rather they mess with the brain structures that control self regulation. It’s believed that around 30-50% of the human population may have a /T. Gondii/ infection, with a corresponding link to other diseases. High levels may also go some way to explaining the prevalence of high risk behaviors in certain areas, although proving a correlation is challenging due to confounding factors.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Real-life ant clickers.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
based parasite makes dudes anarchists
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 month ago
image your best friend becomes a zombie…
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 month ago
Like Shaun of the Dead? That wasn’t too bad
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
???
Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Your right, I looked it up and I wish I didn’t
atro_city@fedia.io 1 month ago
His right or your right?
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes.