Random Animals Blog

OK, so it’s not really an animal in its own right, but it is pretty amazing non the less..

This poor little ant has been infected with Cordyceps Fungus, it transfers itself though spores from host to host, killing any that come into contact with it.

Whats interesting is that once infected, the ant becomes disorientated and starts climbing upwards.. once high up in the trees, the ant eventually dies. The fungus then erupts out of the ants body, flowers, and spreads its spores, which hopefully because of the increased altitude can drift for miles and infect other ants.

Once an ant it discovered to be infected, the rest of the colony reject and even kill it if necessary, and the bodies taken and dumped far away from the nest. Fungi like this are apparently key in keeping any one species from becoming too dominant in rain-forests.

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