• olutukko@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I can already guess that it’s a parasite that takes control of the hosts body. truly is the worst type of parasite

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        7 months ago

        parasitic stripper. it just strips its hosts control of its own body and starts dancing

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        Iirc is to attract birds so it can infect the bird and use it to reproduce. After the bird has eaten the parasite out of the snail’s eyeballs, the snail can often regenerate and keep living as usual. This is what I recall from a YouTube video at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯