🐀🧠 Interesting behaviour of Toxoplasma gondii Did you know? 🤔 Toxoplasma gondii can manipulate the behaviour of infected rats/mice! 🔹 Normally → Rat 🐀 avoids cat 🐈 🔹 After infection → reduced fear/aversion to cat odour 🔹 This may increase the chance of the rat being caught and eaten by a cat. 🎯 This phenomenon is called “Parasite-induced behavioural manipulation” 😱 Often described as “Fatal feline attraction” 🐀❤️🐈 ➡️ Cat → Rat → Brain → Cat 🔄 The parasite uses the rat as an intermediate host and the cat as its definitive host. VET-LAFT #11: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KkHDEolQ3JDI0McI3A3YhQ
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