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Re:'Zombie ant' brains left intact by fungal parasite by raverbashing on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:53AM (#15661408)
Yeah it's really weird. Animal time scales (needed to control muscles) seem much faster (order of ms) than fungus time scales (order of seconds for a very fast one)

It seems to me it requires the whole fungus to assembly itself in some kind of "fungus brain". Really fascinating stuff

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