{"id":26983,"date":"2023-04-05T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T01:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=26983"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T01:53:13","slug":"how-the-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants-bodies-to-control-their-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=26983","title":{"rendered":"How the Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants\u2019 Bodies to Control Their Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The infamous parasite\u2019s methods are more complex and more sinister than anyone suspected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/11\/how-the-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants-bodies-to-control-their-minds\/545864\/\">How the Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants\u2019 Bodies to Control Their Minds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>so how does a fungus learn to move ant legs directly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The infamous parasite\u2019s methods are more complex and more sinister than anyone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1723,314,9],"class_list":["post-26983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ants","tag-fungi","tag-weird","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}