Looked it up, and I think I’ve had enough internet for today
Carl?
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
just a little dancin’. boogie woogie woogie.
Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
No no no no no
TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
olutukko@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I can already guess that it’s a parasite that takes control of the hosts body. truly is the worst type of parasite
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It also crawls into the snail’s eyestalks and starts dancing in the snail’s eyes
LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
This shit creeps me out so much.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Man, me and the several billion gut bacteria I coexist with don’t like this at all!
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 months ago
Can someone explain please
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 7 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 7 months ago
Your right, I looked it up and I wish I didn’t
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
image your best friend becomes a zombie…
Maultasche@feddit.de 7 months 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.
elbucho@lemmy.world 7 months ago
God damn, Nature. You scary.
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 7 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 7 months ago
Are the birds negatively affected by the wormies?
mp3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
tl:dr; nightmare stuff
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 months ago
That is fucking gross!
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
yuri@pawb.social 7 months ago
Jesus fuck the snails LIVE? What a wild article.
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.
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.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Something about this reminds me about Evangelion?
TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Oh Carl’s still there. In perpetual agony.