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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I don't really know much about fungi, but I think the mushrooms'll be fine, just don't eat them, and throw them away as soon as you can, don't want 'em sporing!
Animal weirdness...
There's a parasitic worm that gets into snails.
Now this worm has to spend adult life in a bird to reproduce.
To ensure that it makes it from the snail to the bird, it alters the chemistry of the snail's brain, over-riding it's desire to hide by day.
It "makes" the snail go and sit in plain view of predators, and the snail gets eaten by a hungry bird.
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