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This is fantastic — a newly-discovered species of fungus does the same trick as Ophiocordyceps in Brazil; it infects the brains of orb-weaving cave spiders in Ireland, and induces them to leave their lairs or webs, and migrate to die in an exposed situation, in order to favor dispersal of the fungal spores.
Ophiocordyceps is, of course, the inspiration for the zombie-forming fungus in The Last Of Us.
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