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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago

Man, me and the several billion gut bacteria I coexist with don’t like this at all!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago

This shit creeps me out so much.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The GIF: https://www.wired.com/2014/09/absurd-creature-of-the-week-disco-worm/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jesus fuck the snails LIVE? What a wild article.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Being eaten is a mercy at that point.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The birds don’t even eat the snails, just the eyes. They grow back and the snail is just fine apparently.

“Ah jeeze I’m blind on a leaf again! That’s the last time I eat bird shit!” says the snail, actively meandering it’s way towards a particularly appetizing pile of parasite-laden bird shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Clearly I didn't read it closely enough! You just know there are snails that have their eyes eaten regularly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The GIF is interesting, fun and disturbing, and so is the article if you scroll further. Highly recommended read.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's *mesmerising. Seconding the article recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

*mesmerizing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh dammit yes, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Oh oh oh oh no oh no

[–] [email protected] 90 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Looked it up, and I think I've had enough internet for today

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can already guess that it's a parasite that takes control of the hosts body. truly is the worst type of parasite

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It also crawls into the snail's eyestalks and starts dancing in the snail's eyes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Iirc is to attract birds so it can infect the bird and use it to reproduce. After the bird has eaten the parasite out of the snail's eyeballs, the snail can often regenerate and keep living as usual. This is what I recall from a YouTube video at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

parasitic stripper. it just strips its hosts control of its own body and starts dancing

[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 months ago (2 children)

just a little dancin'. boogie woogie woogie.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Did someone say Boogie Woogie?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

No no no no no

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