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Brutal gnats
In nature, everything is arranged artfully and wisely, and amidst all this wisdom come across such cases, compared with which the fruits of human imagination in the form of zombies and other evil creatures are just fairy tales. I do not recommend reading while eating.
Flies and beetles
Flies family Pseudacteon, of which there are more than 110 species, a very peculiar approached the problem of rearing. To keep it flies lay eggs inside the ants. Next comes the fun part - when the first tiny fly is selected from egg inside the ant, it moves to the head of an ant eating connective tissue, muscle and nerve tissue. This ant turns into a real zombie, moving aimlessly week or two, and then it just falls off the head, and being in her chosen fly out.
Fearless Mouse
There is in the nature of such an interesting parasite - Toxoplasma gondii, which multiplies and feels good only within the cat's body. However, it falls to a very roundabout ways, namely through mice and rats. When rats with food get representatives Toxoplasma gondii, they start with the unreal precision to change the behavior of a rodent, causing it not to be afraid of cats. How exactly this happens - scientists do not know, probably the parasites somehow synthesize a particular toxin, the mice leads to a state of love for cats, without affecting the other instincts, such as fear of open spaces or unfamiliar smell of food. This process almost always ends up eating the rodent cats, Toxoplasma gondii, and get to a destination where multiply and go outside again, waiting for the careless mouse.
Out of water - the sky
The parasite species Euhaplorchis Californiensis lives in the digestive system of birds and eggs during reproduction of his fall into the swamp or the nearest pond with bird droppings. There the eggs are eaten by snails and snail offspring fall into that age is moved to the big water in search of fish species Fundulyus (Fundulidae). When a fish eats the infected snail, the parasite moves on her nervous system to the brain, where he began to "misbehave." The result becomes insane pranks fish circling the surface of the silver side up, and even jumping out of the water. Naturally, such a gift by respecting gull or other bird can not fly, and fish ends his life in the stomach of a bird. Together with parasites. So the circle closes.
Insects neurosurgery
This is the hardest story today. When the female wasp species pteromalidy (jewel wasp) is ready to lay eggs, she finds the common cockroach, and starts to make incredible things. First, with the help of special movements it causes him to lose visual orientation, after which rapid movement clings to his legs and at a fixed place between the first two limbs of the head of cockroaches, where the ganglion, special injects a toxin that paralyzes partly cockroach. When he stops kicking vigorously, followed by a second blow - a wasp sting embedded in the cockroach brain, completely neutralizing the escape reflex that is well developed in all the cockroaches. After the second strike turns into a cockroach insect zombies who dutifully goes for a wasp in its nest, wasp and pulls a cockroach in one of its antennas, like a dog on a leash. Inside his lair wasp lays its eggs inside the roach and barricades outside the nest, leaving a gap for the passage of air. Wasp offspring, born, begins to eat the cockroach was still alive and paralyzed after gets out through the cracks. Now the cycle is ready to repeat. So much for neurosurgery ...
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Flies and beetles
Flies family Pseudacteon, of which there are more than 110 species, a very peculiar approached the problem of rearing. To keep it flies lay eggs inside the ants. Next comes the fun part - when the first tiny fly is selected from egg inside the ant, it moves to the head of an ant eating connective tissue, muscle and nerve tissue. This ant turns into a real zombie, moving aimlessly week or two, and then it just falls off the head, and being in her chosen fly out.
Fearless Mouse
There is in the nature of such an interesting parasite - Toxoplasma gondii, which multiplies and feels good only within the cat's body. However, it falls to a very roundabout ways, namely through mice and rats. When rats with food get representatives Toxoplasma gondii, they start with the unreal precision to change the behavior of a rodent, causing it not to be afraid of cats. How exactly this happens - scientists do not know, probably the parasites somehow synthesize a particular toxin, the mice leads to a state of love for cats, without affecting the other instincts, such as fear of open spaces or unfamiliar smell of food. This process almost always ends up eating the rodent cats, Toxoplasma gondii, and get to a destination where multiply and go outside again, waiting for the careless mouse.
Out of water - the sky
The parasite species Euhaplorchis Californiensis lives in the digestive system of birds and eggs during reproduction of his fall into the swamp or the nearest pond with bird droppings. There the eggs are eaten by snails and snail offspring fall into that age is moved to the big water in search of fish species Fundulyus (Fundulidae). When a fish eats the infected snail, the parasite moves on her nervous system to the brain, where he began to "misbehave." The result becomes insane pranks fish circling the surface of the silver side up, and even jumping out of the water. Naturally, such a gift by respecting gull or other bird can not fly, and fish ends his life in the stomach of a bird. Together with parasites. So the circle closes.
Insects neurosurgery
This is the hardest story today. When the female wasp species pteromalidy (jewel wasp) is ready to lay eggs, she finds the common cockroach, and starts to make incredible things. First, with the help of special movements it causes him to lose visual orientation, after which rapid movement clings to his legs and at a fixed place between the first two limbs of the head of cockroaches, where the ganglion, special injects a toxin that paralyzes partly cockroach. When he stops kicking vigorously, followed by a second blow - a wasp sting embedded in the cockroach brain, completely neutralizing the escape reflex that is well developed in all the cockroaches. After the second strike turns into a cockroach insect zombies who dutifully goes for a wasp in its nest, wasp and pulls a cockroach in one of its antennas, like a dog on a leash. Inside his lair wasp lays its eggs inside the roach and barricades outside the nest, leaving a gap for the passage of air. Wasp offspring, born, begins to eat the cockroach was still alive and paralyzed after gets out through the cracks. Now the cycle is ready to repeat. So much for neurosurgery ...
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