11/20/2024
Parasites can force animals to do nefarious things by manipulating their minds—including, uncomfortably, the minds of human beings.
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi horror movie—689 cats taking over a house, their owners obsessed with adding more felines to the ranks and keeping them fed and sheltered at any cost. But this seemingly fictional story actually happened. And the theories about why introduced an interesting culprit: a microbe so ruthless it would put Machiavelli to shame.
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Parasites can force animals to do nefarious things by manipulating their minds—including, uncomfortably, the minds of human beings.