This snail has been infected by parasites. They hijack their brain, turning them into “zombie snails” controlling their every movement. The parasites further infect the snail’s eyestalks, where they pulse, producing color and movement. They do this to attract birds. The pulsing colors summon a hungry bird, who mistakes the eyestalks for caterpillars. The bird then rips the eyestalks out of the helpless snail, swallows them, then the parasite infects the bird too. The bird eventually poops out th
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This snail has been infected by parasites. They hijack their brain, turning them into “zombie snails” controlling their every movement. The parasites further infect the snail’s eyestalks,
This snail has been infected by parasites. They hijack their brain, turning them into “zombie snails” controlling their every movement. The parasites...
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