Looked it up, and I think I’ve had enough internet for today
Carl?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
just a little dancin’. boogie woogie woogie.
Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
No no no no no
TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
olutukko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can already guess that it’s a parasite that takes control of the hosts body. truly is the worst type of parasite
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It also crawls into the snail’s eyestalks and starts dancing in the snail’s eyes
LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This shit creeps me out so much.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
Man, me and the several billion gut bacteria I coexist with don’t like this at all!
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 weeks ago
Can someone explain please
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trust me. You don’t want to know. It’s fucked up parasite shit. On the same level as the fungus that takes over ants.
Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Your right, I looked it up and I wish I didn’t
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
image your best friend becomes a zombie…
Maultasche@feddit.de 2 weeks ago
It’s a parasite that causes snails to get to higher places and get eaten by birds where it reproduces in their digestive system.
elbucho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
God damn, Nature. You scary.
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The snail has been taken over by parasitic flatworms that control it to seek out exposed spots and pulsate inside of their eye stalks to get eaten by a bird and enter the next stage of their life cycle, which they spend by living in the birds cloaca and spreading their eggs via feces.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Are the birds negatively affected by the wormies?
mp3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
tl:dr; nightmare stuff
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 weeks ago
That is fucking gross!
halvar@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Guys am I the one not getting it or being insensitive toward the snails or is this just the classical “mildly alters behavior of intermediate host in order to spread to host more easily” again?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
yuri@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Jesus fuck the snails LIVE? What a wild article.
harry315@feddit.de 2 weeks ago
The GIF is interesting, fun and disturbing, and so is the article if you scroll further. Highly recommended read.
kalpol@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Oh oh oh oh no oh no
halvar@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I may just have became desensitized to these things over the years, but if I could choose between having my eyes plucked out and dying I’d certainly choose the former, and that’s not even with my eyes being capable of regenerating.
Also the boogie-woogie they do is very grotesque but it’s not particularly scary either for me.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Something about this reminds me about Evangelion?
TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh Carl’s still there. In perpetual agony.