Interesting Behaviour
This interesting in that a parasite can cause changes in its host to do non survival actions. Most of these puppet master parasites seem to be found in insects like ants. I read about a sheep's blood fluke that infects ants and takes control of them by making them climb to the top of grass leaves and wait to get eaten by a sheep, where the blood fluke reproduces itself. Another parasite is a fungus that makes the ant climb a tree and bite down on a twig when the sun is the highest with the fungus breaking out of the ant's head and dropping spores onto the ground to be picked up by another ant.
