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.
Can someone explain please
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?
Their eyes don’t pulse out of their heads, if that’s what you mean.
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
Nature is everything