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The parasitic Nematomorph hairworm
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Is a parasitic worm that makes the grasshopper it invades jump into water and commit suicide, it does so by chemically influencing its brain,Somehow mature hairworms brainwash their hosts into behaving in way they never usually would – causing them to seek out and plunge into water
Once in the water the mature hairworms – which are three to four times longer that their hosts when extended – emerge and swim away to find a mate, leaving their host dead or dying in the water.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.
(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)
Toxoplasma gondii"
It makes rats want to shag cats..... Google it |
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"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.
(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)
Toxoplasma gondii
It makes rats want to shag cats..... Google it"
I’m gonna bow to your superior knowledge on this one Dash. Dinners in the oven and you have already put me off my grasshoppers.  |
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"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.
(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)
Toxoplasma gondii
It makes rats want to shag cats..... Google it
I’m gonna bow to your superior knowledge on this one Dash. Dinners in the oven and you have already put me off my grasshoppers. "
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I heard of one called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis which is a fungus that infects ants in Brazil and Africa. Once infected it makes them move away from the nest and go to around 25cm above the ground on a tree or plant, in a spot with just the right amount of humidity for the fungus to grow. It makes the ant clamp down on a leaf with its mandibles and dies. Shortly afterwards fungal threads emerge from the corpse and then a stalk emerges out of the ant to rain spores down onto the forest floor where they can infect more ants, and so the cycle continues.
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"Isn’t there a parasite that makes you want to hang out with cats.
(I may have simplified it a little but I’m sure there is)
Toxoplasma gondii
It makes rats want to shag cats..... Google it"
It is a parasite that wants to get into cats, it removes the natural fear of cats from rats / mice etc. There is some speculation that it can also get into human brains and suppress natural fear reaction.
Some studies have shown that humans are more likely to have car accidents etc. When infected as they take more risks. But insufficient human brains get sliced and diced to prove the theory.
Microscopic parasites often control brain function, so if you find yourself doing something odd, it may not have been your idea  |
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