Real-Life Zombies | National Geographic

there’s parasite that lives in North
America in Europe called Luke okhla
radium paradox in’ when it’s inside of a
snails body it crawls up into the snails
tentacles and because the tentacles are
translucent you can actually see the
parasite inside and there it twitches
around so that it creates a strange kind
of pulsating appearance to the tentacle
so what you see when you see this
pulsing is actually the parasite inside
the snail the parasite also causes the
snail to crawl up plants snails usually
just stay away from the light
but the parasite takes over its brain
and makes it go up and the reason it
does that is because the parasite needs
to get into a bird birds usually don’t
like to eat snails but when a snail goes
up a plant and its tentacle looks like a
caterpillar instead of a snail the bird
gets very interested and they swoop down
and they take a bite out of the snail
tentacle and that way the parasite is
able to get inside the bird the parasite
travels down through its gut to its
rectum and there it becomes an adult
juices eggs which then pass out with the
bird droppings where snails come along
and feed on them and now the parasites
eggs get into a new snail which can get
into the tentacles and so on and so on
and so on