Oh Carl's still there. In perpetual agony.
Looked it up, and I think I've had enough internet for today
This shit creeps me out so much.
Man, me and the several billion gut bacteria I coexist with don’t like this at all!
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.
tl:dr; nightmare stuff
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?
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
