decadentrebelM to Creepy WikipediaEnglish • 4 months agoLeucochloridium paradoxum - Parasitic worm that infects snails, manipulating their eye stalks to resemble caterpillars which attracts birds to eat themen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6arrow-up141arrow-down11cross-posted to: creepywikipedia
arrow-up140arrow-down1external-linkLeucochloridium paradoxum - Parasitic worm that infects snails, manipulating their eye stalks to resemble caterpillars which attracts birds to eat themen.wikipedia.orgdecadentrebelM to Creepy WikipediaEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square6cross-posted to: creepywikipedia
minus-square@frankenswinelinkEnglish1•3 months 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