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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-11 06:30 PM
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11. happens to rats too
Rat gets infected, rat runs to cat, cat eats rat, cat scats, rat snacks on the scat, and on and on... Evolution is cooooool.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110819141519.htm

When a male rat senses the presence of a fetching female rat, a certain region of his brain lights up with neural activity, in anticipation of romance. Now Stanford University researchers have discovered that in male rats infected with the parasite Toxoplasma, the same region responds just as strongly to the odor of cat urine.
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