neidu2 ( @neidu2@feddit.nl ) 1•6 months agoOf the type often seen in movies where the body is rotten, no. Dead tissue doesn’t move.
However, there are approximations:
For starters there’s a type of fungus that hijacks ants, using it to spread its spores into other ants. It can control the ants movement to the point where it will cause the and to go to certain good spore-spread8ng places before the ant is devoured.
Then there’s the disease that affects raindeer in some places. I don’t remember the illness, but basically the mind goes byebye while the body is left to be controlled by less and less sophisticated parts of the brain, to the point where the animal can do nothing but walk in circles.
Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English2•6 months agoCWD is a prion, which is terrifying. that’s also why it can live on corpses and even survive in vegetation
Chaser ( @Chaser@sopuli.xyz ) 1•6 months agoThe deer one is chronic wasting disease
TheColonel ( @TheColonel@reddthat.com ) 1•6 months agoI’ve heard concern of it becoming a pandemic in deer populations and also scientists are worried it’ll spread to people!
Yaaaaaaaaay. 🫠
tacosanonymous ( @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months agoIt’s bonkers. It’s resistant to everything, persists after being burned, etc.
umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 0•6 months agoimagine being a spore and becoming conscious inside an ant, with an animal’s brain.
Belzebubulubu ( @Belzebubulubu@mujico.org ) 0•6 months agoThat’s NOT how those spores work bro, they don’t gain cousciousness lmao
Also, ants aren’t even conscious themselfs
EDIT: Typos.
umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 1•6 months agoprobably yeah but its a lot of fun to imagine
Belzebubulubu ( @Belzebubulubu@mujico.org ) 0•5 months agoAgree, that’s funny lol