One thing that fascinates me, is the fact that there are real life zombie parasites that can take over your brain and control your behaviour.
No, really.
Don’t believe me? Well, it’s true. At least if you’re an animal other than human.
See, there’s, for example, the green-banded broodsac. What it does is, it’s a parasite that infects snails, grows inside them, makes them blind and partly alters their behaviour. The snails are still alive when they’re being taken over by these things, and I can’t imagine it being very pleasant being a snail with a flatworm that slowly eats its way through my body. And after they’ve infested the snail, they also makes the snails eyes glow red. No, seriously.
Why do they do this? Cause the flatworm wants to be eaten by birds, since then it can spread through the bird. So by making the snails blind, they prevent them from seeking out dark areas where they can hide, (I can’t imagine the glowing eyes part helping in that regard, either) so that the birds can find the snails more easily. The birds eat the snail and the worm, and the worm spreads by traveling with the bird and spreading eggs with the birds poo. That other snails then eat, and become infected.
No, seriously, there are mindcontrolling flatworms that fly in birds and propagate through bird poo. Look it up.
The world is a very weird and scary place.
See also, the zombie ants taken over by a different kind of flatworm, which takes it over and makes it climb grass so that cows can easier eat it by accident and the flatworm can spread through cow poo.
Veerrrryyy weird. And scary.
October 16, 2009 at 10:41 am |
Can the flatworms mutate and start taking control over the cows and the birds who are their next living place?
ooooh nice zombie cows with red eyes! I will sleep comfortably tonight.
duoduodoodoo duoduodoodoo eek eek eek
October 24, 2009 at 11:19 pm |
Maybe this is some “Pinky and the Brain”-like plot to take over the earth. They know we eat cows, at least most of us. And if we eat them they crawl through our veins to our brain and take control of it.
And vegetarians are an ancient secret order, founded to prevent flatworm control over mankind. A new conspiracy theory…
October 30, 2009 at 8:59 pm |
But do their eggs come out through the milk too? Because then all of the vegetarians who are eating and drinking dairy products just as fooled as we meat eaters are.