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Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CvFy5pTnM


fucking scary ass fungus controls the brain of ants then erupts from their head
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
original poster you are full of shit. Thats not what the fungus does and furthermore don't believe anything you see on you tube ps I'm an entomologist so gtfo
>> Anonymous
>>51473I'm an hero
Fixed, now go prove it.
>> Anonymous
>>51473

so what does it do entononymous?
>> Anonymous
don't listen to entomonymous, I just sat through a fricken lecture on these things, and they du indeed control the insects behavior and then erupt.
>> Anonymous
looks like something out of nausicaa
>> Anonymous
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You called?
>> Anonymous
this is disturbing
>> Anonymous
Fungii types are 4x Super Effective against Bug types!
>> Anonymous
>>51613
It's afraid!
>> Anonymous
That's so fsking cool
Article here:
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/
>> Anonymous
>>51663

lololo
>> Anonymous
Wow this is creepy yet entertaining.
>> Anonymous
Now, if they could get varieties of these for pest-ants that infest our homes...
>> Anonymous
>>51915
why would you want that? the ants would die but their rotting fungi infested corpse would still be littered all over your house...
>> Anonymous
It's be interesting to see a Human infecting variety.
>> Anonymous
wait a min... Cordyceps fungus? isnt that some sort of "herb" that the chinese use to make soup for medical purposes? they look like caterpillas but with this tails sticking out....
>> Anonymous
The Chinese use everything for medicinal purposes.
>> Anonymous
You do know things like these tend to mutate over time...a human/animal variety is probably only a few centuries away
>> Anonymous
I thought there was a virus (or something) that infects rats brains and causes them to ignore the smell of cat urine, making them likely to be eatten by a cat so that the virus could reproduce in the cat's feces. It was in a magazine article...Maybe it was just made up to illustrate how such a relationship could work.
>> Anonymous
>>52372
toxoplasma gondii?
>> Anonymous
The guinea worm, which gets into people through drinking water, eventually burrows its way towards an infected person's skin, causing pain and eventually poking out. Infected people relieve this pain by immersing the infected area in water, where the worm releases its eggs. This seems similar to what these fungi do, what with manipulating a creature's behavior into benefitting itself.
>> Anonymous
>>52418
There's also a parasite which invades a snail/slug's body and once it has grown enough, moves into the eye stalks and makes the poor host climb to some high spot. The parasite then moves around the stalk making the snail even more visible to birds (it looks almost like there's something white pulsating in the stalk). In the bird the parasites next stage begins and so on.
The world is full of little wonders like these, although I was quite surprised by the fungus in the original post.
>> Anonymous
There was a micro-organism I saw on a Discovery show once that will infect tadpoles, causing them to grow up with numerous extra legs as frogs, which makes them easier to catch for cranes. Once the frog is eaten by a crane it lays eggs in the crane's body. It was pretty complicated.

For a while I remember reading news stories about the frogs with extra limbs in that area and how everyone thought it was due to pollution but it turned out there was a tiny little critter doing it.
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw