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angrycoder on Dec 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "Zombie" Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi

So nothing to worry about until the fungus decides it likes brains more than sunlight?

gcb on Dec 26, 2011 [–]

what? the reason it makes the ant climb high is because when it grows it actually rips open the ant and eventually burst millions of spore to rain over the colony.

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