Had heard/read about parasites that can affect animal behavior, but this is a pretty extreme thing for a fungus to do.
Nature can be cruel sometimes - fungus that zombifies ants.
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, mai 10 2011 01:02
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 01:02
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Had heard/read about parasites that can affect animal behavior, but this is a pretty extreme thing for a fungus to do.
Had heard/read about parasites that can affect animal behavior, but this is a pretty extreme thing for a fungus to do.
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 02:23
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I saw a program about that on the Discovery channel. I want to modify that fungus to work on humans!
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 03:09
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warn me when you do , so i can get my shotgun and crowbar at the readychunkyman wrote...
I saw a program about that on the Discovery channel. I want to modify that fungus to work on humans!
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 03:15
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I remember seeing this on Planet Earth. Thank god it can't infect us like that...yet.
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 03:22
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Scary stuff. That would start the zombie apocalypse if it passed on to humans alright. Quickly, someone hand me a can of Desenex!
This also reminds me of the Thorian from Mass Effect. Interesting, in any case. Downright ingenuous, actually. The mechanics of certain life forms are as fascinating as deadly. Should we really be trying to duplicate that process as a form of pest control, though? That might have serious ecological consequences.
This also reminds me of the Thorian from Mass Effect. Interesting, in any case. Downright ingenuous, actually. The mechanics of certain life forms are as fascinating as deadly. Should we really be trying to duplicate that process as a form of pest control, though? That might have serious ecological consequences.
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 03:27
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"Hughes said his continuing research at Penn State is designed to learn how the fungus might be used to control pest insects in homes and farms"
Call me oversensitive, but I think that killing them like that is a bit cruel. Sure they are insects, but still... Well I guess bug spray ain't a much better way to die.
Call me oversensitive, but I think that killing them like that is a bit cruel. Sure they are insects, but still... Well I guess bug spray ain't a much better way to die.
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 03:44
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chunkyman wrote...
I saw a program about that on the Discovery channel. I want to modify that fungus to work on humans!
Already being worked on...I'll update you as things progress...
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 03:50
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Seagloom wrote...
Scary stuff. That would start the zombie apocalypse if it passed on to humans alright. Quickly, someone hand me a can of Desenex!
This also reminds me of the Thorian from Mass Effect.
Or a certain vault in Fallout: New Vegas.
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 05:12
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Here is an interesting picture of a long dead infected ant.
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 10:27
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And this is in part why I know how to make napalm.
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Posté 10 mai 2011 - 10:51
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Posté 11 mai 2011 - 04:54
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*adds Thailand's rainforest to the list of places she is chicken to visit*
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Posté 11 mai 2011 - 05:24
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Ringo12 wrote...
BBC video on this creepy watching the thing grow out the ants head...
Creepy indeed. Somewhat cool but definitely creepy.
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Posté 11 mai 2011 - 05:27
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So if you get infected you go fuzzy?
If i saw anything with a plant growing out of it's head coming towards me, i swear to god i will kill it.
I have a fear of plants and this just intensifies it. Ever since i watched Jumanji, i hate plants with hairs on it, or massive flower heads that look like they can eat you.
Seriously, i am scared to touch plants.
An example of my fear: http://www.google.co...aqi=g10&aql==
I refuse to stand ever near this demon plant.
I felt really really uncomfortable watching the 3d images of buds growing out of the dead bugs.
If i saw anything with a plant growing out of it's head coming towards me, i swear to god i will kill it.
I have a fear of plants and this just intensifies it. Ever since i watched Jumanji, i hate plants with hairs on it, or massive flower heads that look like they can eat you.
Seriously, i am scared to touch plants.
An example of my fear: http://www.google.co...aqi=g10&aql==
I refuse to stand ever near this demon plant.
I felt really really uncomfortable watching the 3d images of buds growing out of the dead bugs.
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Posté 11 mai 2011 - 05:35
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I watched it several months ago. Disturbing but enlightening.
Nature does its work and you should adapt with it.
Nature does its work and you should adapt with it.
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Posté 11 mai 2011 - 05:52
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Whats Even worse is if you read the article in the OP, it say companies are looking it to how this can be used as a type of pest control. One can only image what will happen when scientists start to alter the Fugi's DNA.
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Posté 11 mai 2011 - 06:09
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That can transfer into rats, cats, dogs or maybe humans ;||
It will be the real blight for the world.
That can transfer into rats, cats, dogs or maybe humans ;||
It will be the real blight for the world.
