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Old 06-03-2014, 12:10 AM   #149
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
That's disgusting, but also incredibly cool. I had no idea that worms lived inside insects and controlled their behavior.
Read an article once about this is so common--parasites controlling host behavior for their reproductive purposes (sometimes passing through several host species in an ecosystem, as they xenomorph through different stages of their life cycle)--that if we knew how much this takes place we'd consider parasites the dominant life form.
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