1y ago

Carl?

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Oh Carl's still there. In perpetual agony.
Looked it up, and I think I've had enough internet for today
- just a little dancin'. boogie woogie woogie.
  
  No no no no no
  
  Did someone say Boogie Woogie?
- I can already guess that it's a parasite that takes control of the hosts body. truly is the worst type of parasite
  
  It also crawls into the snail's eyestalks and starts dancing in the snail's eyes
This shit creeps me out so much.
Man, me and the several billion gut bacteria I coexist with don’t like this at all!
Can someone explain please
- 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.
  
  Your right, I looked it up and I wish I didn't
  
  Fungus takes over ants
  
  image your best friend becomes a zombie...
- It's a parasite that causes snails to get to higher places and get eaten by birds where it reproduces in their digestive system.
  
  God damn, Nature. You scary.
- 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.
  
  Are the birds negatively affected by the wormies?
- tl:dr; nightmare stuff
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-4f41Gaf8
  https://www.wired.com/2014/09/absurd-creature-of-the-week-disco-worm/
  
  That is fucking gross!
  
  nature is metal
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?
- The GIF: https://www.wired.com/2014/09/absurd-creature-of-the-week-disco-worm/
  
  Jesus fuck the snails LIVE? What a wild article.
  
  The GIF is interesting, fun and disturbing, and so is the article if you scroll further. Highly recommended read.
  
  Oh oh oh oh no oh no
  
  I may just have became desensitized to these things over the years, but if I could choose between having my eyes plucked out or 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 for me either.
Something about this reminds me about Evangelion?
- There it is

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