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Back to Episodes3: Mind Controlling Parasites, Are Elephants Right Handed, and Naruto AMVs
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How do mind controlling (or rather, behavior controlling) parasites work? Are elephants right or left handed? And what is so great about Naruto Bohemian Rhapsody AMVs?
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We also learn about: being cancelled by ants, Ella tries to pronounce latin names, bugs losing their butts, the parasite of the day, thanks for the parasites Charlie! Phylogenetic Inirtia, I DON’T OWN QUEEN OR NARUTO I DONT OWN ANYTHING, and Torchwood X Florence & The Machine fanvids!
Sources:
Mind Control: How Parasites Manipulate Cognitive Functions in Their Insect Hosts
How a parasitic fungus turns ants into zombies
This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms
Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive
How does rabies cause aggression?
Rabies virus modifies host behaviour through a snake-toxin
Parasite makes mice lose fear of cats permanently
Brain parasite may strip away rodents' fear of predators, not just of cats
Right or Left: Elephant calves pick their trunk handedness early on in life
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