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3: Mind Controlling Parasites, Are Elephants Right Handed, and Naruto AMVs

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Toxoplasmagondii, Spino Cordotis Telini

Toxoplasmagondii is a mind controlling parasite. Spino Cordotis Telini are also known as horse hairworms. The adults of these types of worms live freely in water, but their larvae develop in grass hoppers and crickets. When they're ready to become aquatic, which is when they've grown three to four times larger than their host, they cause the grasshoppers or cricket to jump into water and drown themselves so that the worm can spin away, swim away.

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