OMGAKITTY Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 http://www.livescience.com/animals/090812-ant-fungus.html tl;dr: Certain type of fungus can take over carpenter ants' brains and make them die where it is ideal for the fungus to grow. Discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeDeFiA Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 lol. Ants get diseases too? And they posted an article about? Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flame Dragon Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 I find it sad that I already knew this. This happens to a good number of insects if I'm not mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemniscate Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Once it mutates for humans, I'll be really interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juuzou Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 maybe if we harness this power, we can make the walking dead into an army completely under our control! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yea, it's pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitus Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Well, I always wondered if bugs got diseases. Then I thought that of course they did, because they are full of germs. They are alive and have a body like we do, I'm sure they get diseases, but perhaps not as many. Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/성成현賢/.led Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 I find it sad that I already knew this. This happens to a good number of insects if I'm not mistaken. I knew this too Animal Planet FTW Epic Fungus is Epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeDeFiA Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Well' date=' I always wondered if bugs got diseases. Then I thought that of course they did, because they are full of germs. They are alive and have a body like we do, I'm sure they get diseases, but perhaps not as many. Interesting.[/quote'] Better them getting this disease than us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitus Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Well' date=' I always wondered if bugs got diseases. Then I thought that of course they did, because they are full of germs. They are alive and have a body like we do, I'm sure they get diseases, but perhaps not as many. Interesting.[/quote'] Better them getting this disease than us. I understand that. If that could happen to us, then people would be dieing like crazy. Of course, that still doesn't mean that zombies are real. (let's not and say we went to that topic) I didn't read the article, but I think that the reason fungi are able to do that is because ants brains are simple. Ours on the other hand, are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:JBM:. Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 This is quite the interesting topic. Especially since fungus does not have a brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tiger Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Those poor ants. =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntar! Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 As soon as there's a fungus that makes Nazi Bears, riding on Giant Saber-tooth tigers, i'll be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeDeFiA Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Those poor ants. =( Eh. I could live without them. I hate bugs >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGAKITTY Posted August 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 As soon as there's a fungus that makes Nazi Bears' date=' riding on Giant [b']cyborg[/b] Saber-tooth tigers, i'll be interested. Well, I'm not a fungus, but... Oh crap! Nazi Bear #213 has broken out of his containment cell! brb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Beasto Perezoso Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Once it mutates for humans' date=' I'll be really interested.[/quote'] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Lawless Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Well, they're not really zombies. Zombies are living dead. If the fungus could keep them moving postmortem(lol i never use that word XD), then zombies...they're more like puppets.Puppets or not, this is pretty interesting. Like Taiga said, if this gets to humans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumapaws376 Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 ☆ Fungus rules all!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilhorus Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Whoa.As soon as there's a fungus that makes Nazi Bears' date=' riding on Giant [b']cyborg[/b] Saber-tooth tigers, riding on Hitlers pet Nazi Elephant, i'll be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Womi Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 There are many of those parasites. There is a wasp that puts its breed into living frogs. Then, the little wasps come out and eat the whole inside of the frog. Yummy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilhorus Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 There are many of those parasites. There is a wasp that puts its breed into living frogs. Then' date=' the little wasps come out and eat the whole inside of the frog. Yummy![/quote'] Yeah, Delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dissidia Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 Wow since when does fungi have brains....wait, they dont.....they're using ant brains.......how smart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Womi Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 "ant brains"?You cant really consider these little things as brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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