real zombies in nature..fungus makes zombies out of ants

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    Saw these on a BBC doco series DVD that I managed to win somehow. Brain fungus is weird stuff. Fortunately they're all specific to an individual insect species, so we won't be seeing mushrooms growing from human heads too soon.
     
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