Max: Parasite Hijacks Brain
LiveScience.com - Bizarre Human Brain Parasite Precisely Alters Fear
Rats usually have an innate fear of cat urine. The fear extends to rodents that have never seen a feline and those generations removed from ever meeting a cat. After they get infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, however, rats become attracted to cat pee, increasing the chance they'll become cat food.
Rats usually have an innate fear of cat urine. The fear extends to rodents that have never seen a feline and those generations removed from ever meeting a cat. After they get infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, however, rats become attracted to cat pee, increasing the chance they'll become cat food.
posted by Max Dobberstein at 4/03/2007 03:56:00 PM
2 Comments:
I once saw a theory that cats were actually invaders from another planet. If that theory is true - this makes much more sense. This parasite is terraforming, or more acurately, felinaforming, all of us. Hmmmm ....
We must take a stand against felinofacism!
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