Comment on Carl?
halvar@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Guys am I the one not getting it or being insensitive toward the snails or is this just the classical “mildly alters behavior of intermediate host in order to spread to host more easily” again?
Comment on Carl?
halvar@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Guys am I the one not getting it or being insensitive toward the snails or is this just the classical “mildly alters behavior of intermediate host in order to spread to host more easily” again?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
The GIF: wired.com/…/absurd-creature-of-the-week-disco-wor…
yuri@pawb.social 7 months ago
Jesus fuck the snails LIVE? What a wild article.
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Beaten eaten is a mercy at that point.
yuri@pawb.social 7 months ago
The birds don’t even eat the snails, just the eyes. They grow back and the snail is just fine apparently.
“Ah jeeze I’m blind on a leaf again! That’s the last time I eat bird shit!” says the snail, actively meandering it’s way towards a particularly appetizing pile of parasite-laden bird shit.
harry315@feddit.de 7 months ago
The GIF is interesting, fun and disturbing, and so is the article if you scroll further. Highly recommended read.
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Image
Its memorizing. Seconding the article recommendation.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
*mesmerizing
kalpol@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh oh oh oh no oh no
halvar@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I may just have became desensitized to these things over the years, but if I could choose between having my eyes plucked out and dying I’d certainly choose the former, and that’s not even with my eyes being capable of regenerating.
Also the boogie-woogie they do is very grotesque but it’s not particularly scary either for me.