Oh Carl’s still there. In perpetual agony.
Looked it up, and I think I’ve had enough internet for today
just a little dancin’. boogie woogie woogie.
No no no no no
Did someone say Boogie Woogie?
I can already guess that it’s a parasite that takes control of the hosts body. truly is the worst type of parasite
It also crawls into the snail’s eyestalks and starts dancing in the snail’s eyes
parasitic stripper. it just strips its hosts control of its own body and starts dancing
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)_/¯
Man, me and the several billion gut bacteria I coexist with don’t like this at all!
This shit creeps me out so much.
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
That is fucking gross!
nature is metal
Nature is everything
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?
Jesus fuck the snails LIVE? What a wild article.
Being eaten is a mercy at that point.
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.
Clearly I didn’t read it closely enough! You just know there are snails that have their eyes eaten regularly.
The GIF is interesting, fun and disturbing, and so is the article if you scroll further. Highly recommended read.
It’s *mesmerising. Seconding the article recommendation.
*mesmerizing
Oh dammit yes, thank you.
Oh oh oh oh no oh no
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.
Something about this reminds me about Evangelion?
There it is
