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
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)_/¯
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
The GIF is interesting, fun and disturbing, and so is the article if you scroll further. Highly recommended read.
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.