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The Zambi Fongus
There's this species of ant called campanorus leonardi. And the ants go from tree to tree, but sometimes they can't do it wia leaves. They need to go to forest floor in order to get to the other tree. The forest floor is a particularly dangerous place for the ants because there's preditors there. So on the forest floor, there's this fungus rice, and it's a parasitic fungus. It attaches itself to the ants, and then it enters the brains of certain ants. Now the ant initially doesn't know that it's been infected with this fungus,. But as the fungus starts to grow, it starts to take over the ants central nervous system.
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