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: | :The trematode infects a horn snail, castrates it, and uses its body to reproduce. | ||
: | :There, it releases cerceriae, which attach to killifish and burrow towards their brains. | ||
:One on the brain, they cause the fish to shimmy and flash their shiny sides upward | |||
: | :"Why you doin that, Frank?" | ||
: | :"Because it's *awesome*." | ||
: | :This gets the parasite into its ultimate goal: the gut of a predatory bird. | ||
: | :"What are the odds?!" | ||
: | :From there, they are excreted back into the water to infect snails. | ||
: | :"*Hahahahaha*! Everything is as I forsaw it!” | ||
: | :What happens to the killifish isn't strange in nature. In fact, it may be common | ||
: | :Since humans are atop their food chain, it's not clear that we're subject to the same sort of manipulations. Though.... Sometimes I wonder about astrophysicists. | ||
: | :"These send signals to space so aliens can find us!" | ||
: | :"*Awesome*!" | ||
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:Fun fact: Today's comic features the organism studied by my wife, Kelly Weinersmith. Due to the existence of this comic, any discoveries she makes are now credited to me. | :Fun fact: Today's comic features the organism studied by my wife, Kelly Weinersmith. Due to the existence of this comic, any discoveries she makes are now credited to me. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Phil Plait]] | |||
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- [Describe panel here]
- The trematode infects a horn snail, castrates it, and uses its body to reproduce.
- There, it releases cerceriae, which attach to killifish and burrow towards their brains.
- One on the brain, they cause the fish to shimmy and flash their shiny sides upward
- "Why you doin that, Frank?"
- "Because it's *awesome*."
- This gets the parasite into its ultimate goal: the gut of a predatory bird.
- "What are the odds?!"
- From there, they are excreted back into the water to infect snails.
- "*Hahahahaha*! Everything is as I forsaw it!”
- What happens to the killifish isn't strange in nature. In fact, it may be common
- Since humans are atop their food chain, it's not clear that we're subject to the same sort of manipulations. Though.... Sometimes I wonder about astrophysicists.
- "These send signals to space so aliens can find us!"
- "*Awesome*!"
Votey Transcript[edit]
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This transcript was generated by a bot: The text was scraped using AWS's Textract, which may have errors. Complete transcripts should also describe what happens in each panel. |
- [Describe panel here]
- Fun fact: Today's comic features the organism studied by my wife, Kelly Weinersmith. Due to the existence of this comic, any discoveries she makes are now credited to me.
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