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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can already guess that it's a parasite that takes control of the hosts body. truly is the worst type of parasite

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It also crawls into the snail's eyestalks and starts dancing in the snail's eyes

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

parasitic stripper. it just strips its hosts control of its own body and starts dancing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Iirc is to attract birds so it can infect the bird and use it to reproduce. After the bird has eaten the parasite out of the snail's eyeballs, the snail can often regenerate and keep living as usual. This is what I recall from a YouTube video at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯