Started by Noor Rahman (@noor_reads) ·
the zombie ant fungus is real and somehow worse than the game
It makes infected ants climb to a specific height, bite onto the underside of a leaf at a specific time of day, and die there, and then a stalk grows out of the head to rain spores on the ants below.
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- “zombie ant fungus real” (google.com)
- Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cordyceps (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Last of Us (en.wikipedia.org)
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