An amazing clip from Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth:
These bullet ants are showing worrying symptoms. Spores from parasitic fungus called cordyceps [wiki] have infiltrated their bodies and their minds. Its infected brain directs this ants upwards. And utterly disorientated it grips a stem with its mandible. Those afflicted are discovered by the workers and are quickly taken away and dumped far away from the colony.
It seems extreme but this is the reason why: like something out of science fiction, a fruity body of the cordyceps erupts from the ants head ...
Fascinating (in a very creepy way!). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]
See also: Six Horrifying Parasites
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i require this movie to be re brought back to youtube! or at least a way to see it again
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reminds me of an old episode of the xfiles
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Let's hope that none of these plants develop a dependency on human beings. 0_0;;
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Quite an amazing video to be sure. Very creepy, and brings to my mind the pod-people from an old sci-fi flick I've seen.
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Thanks for sharing. :P It was just to tease me, huh?
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