Zombie Snails | World's Deadliest

They don't walk... nor are they really dead. But these snails are zombies. They have been hijacked by a parasite that controls their brains and movements. It's a clever ploy to help the parasites' offspring spread and endure.

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Zombie Snails | World's Deadliest

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[B_assMan.Archive]

Editor: How many quick cuts and dramatic sound effects do you want?
Discovery channels: Yes.

[Juel]

Was the person editing this also infected with mind-altering worms?

[psilosphere]

i don't understand why AMerican nature documentaries feel the need for rapid cut scenes, speeeding up and slowing down the frame rate, and ridiculous unrelated sound effect and 'exciting' music. Like, I've already chosen to watch a nature documentary, you already know I'm not trying to get myself hyped up for tonights Fight Club meeting.

[milkboyneo]

So I randomly found a snail like this, and I touched it. I was like "What a colorful unique snail." Without knowing it was hijacked by a parasite. Poor bud.

[alegomanYTPs]

DOES IT REALLY MAKE THAT WUHWUHWUHWUHWUH NOISE?

[lucyanne]

Moral of the story: don't eat bird poop. 

[KXKat]

Those sound effects, the music and the overly dramatic narration just made a bizarre, yet fascinating spectacle of nature into a cheesy fiasco.

[kojifresh]

I was waiting for him to say the bird gets possessed.

[Josh_AM]

That fact that I have to live on the same planet as these things is trifling

[TheLivingHeiromartyr]

Moral of the story: don't eat shit.

[WoM]

Ridiculous sound effects and Nat Geo gets away with it

[my]

Omg I can see Makima holding this colorful sweets for Denji.

[dylanplumley]

This Genuinely scares me. Losing you will to a parasite. This is a fate worse than death. I hope nothing like this ever happens to a person.

[phillipjohnson]

"studies have shown that parasites will be extinct by 2050"
Me: yea sure that's cool with me.

[fusrohdah]

I love snails but i gotta say, id squash that with no hesitation if i saw its eyes were like that.

[pandaSalas]

Nice documentary. But I'm not sure what's more disturbing, the fact that the parasite really takes control of the snails body or the fact that the worm inside have to literally commit suicide to reproduce. Nature is a wonder.

Greetings from San Luis Potosí, México.

[atastywonton]

Better than every episode of Walking Dead combined

[DARKHELLS]

The only real loser is the snail.
Has to eat birdcrap as his diet.
Gets his brain taken over by parasites.
Gets his head eaten off by a  bird.
Sucks to be the snail.

[Sercil]

Actually, these parasites don't really "mind control" the snail, I think.
From what I understand, the snails can't see very well with the parasite inside it's tentacles, so they seek light because it's dark to them. Which is where they get eaten.

[hugogomez]

Literally, tell us the name of that freaking parasite