The Fungus That Hijacks Ant Brains
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There's this fungus, and the fungus has a very peculiar lifestyle and I'm very curious to
find out how it got this lifestyle. But it lives half of its life in an ant colony,
and half of its life in a sheep. So, when it comes out of the phase of
that it goes through in the ant colony and is ready to go into the sheep, it takes over the
brain of an ant. And it gets that ant to climb to the top of a stalk of grass.
Why? Because when the sheep come along to graze, they will inhale
the ant. What? You're telling me that a fungus can control the mind
of an ant in ways that we're just beginning to explore now? This year and maybe
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