2011-08-08
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Votey
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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.
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