enthalpy

Sunday, January 15, 2012


Hollywood could not have devised a more scary way to die than becoming a fungus zombie.
The fungus attacks the ants on two fronts. Firstly by using the ant as a walking food source, and secondly by damaging muscle and the ant’s central nervous system, resulting in zombie walking and the death bite, which place the ant in the cool damp understory. Together these provide the perfect environment for fungal growth and reproduction. This behavior 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.
Has anyone seen a Kardashian eating a salad at solar noon?



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