Those Poor Zombie Ants...
I just came across this on another site when reading about microbes in the soil from a link here. Tropical carpenter ants get infected by a fungus and get turned into zombies!
http://esciencenews.com/articles/201...e.fungus.brain
After reading this, it makes M. Night Shyamalans movie "The Happening" all the more creepy.
Scary! Might this be our problem?Originally Posted by Pakanohida
I just came across this on another site when reading about microbes in the soil from a link here. Tropical carpenter ants get infected by a fungus and get turned into zombies!
http://esciencenews.com/articles/201...e.fungus.brain
After reading this, it makes M. Night Shyamalans movie "The Happening" all the more creepy.
This behaviour of infected ants is essentially an extended phenotype of the fungus (fungal behaviour through the ant's body) as non-infected ants never behave in this way."
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