Real Zombies That Live Among Us
Real Zombies Among Us. Ants are ever-present organisms, commonly found throughout tropical forests worldwide. They make colonies that range from a few individuals up to millions. And although they make up roughly 2% of nearly a million species of insects described, ants are estimated to comprise four times the biomass of all vertebrates on Earth combined. Such dominance, not surprisingly, exposes the ants to a broad range of pathogens, especially fungal parasites. Among those are Ophiocordyceps, the intriguing “zombie-ant fungi.” In this video we are going to take a closer look at some of the zombies of the natural world.
To find the world’s most sinister examples of mind control, don’t look to science fiction. Instead, go to a tropical country like Brazil, and venture deep into the jungle. Find a leaf that’s hanging almost exactly 25 centimetres above the forest floor, no more and no less. Now look underneath it. If you’re in luck, you might find an ant clinging to the leaf’s central vein, jaws clamped tight for dear life. But this ant’s life is already over. And its body belongs to Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, the zombie-ant fungus.
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