decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoLeucochloridium paradoxum - Parasitic worm that infects snails, manipulating their eye stalks to resemble caterpillars which attracts birds to eat themen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkLeucochloridium paradoxum - Parasitic worm that infects snails, manipulating their eye stalks to resemble caterpillars which attracts birds to eat themen.wikipedia.orgdecadentrebel@lemmy.worldM to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarefrankenswine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoi don’t think so (: toxoplasma IIRC alters a host’s behavior in favor of cats, so that it can infect those - since cats are the only ones it can reproduce in. not as colorful and funky as the exapmle here, but similarly clever/complex
i don’t think so (: toxoplasma IIRC alters a host’s behavior in favor of cats, so that it can infect those - since cats are the only ones it can reproduce in. not as colorful and funky as the exapmle here, but similarly clever/complex