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        "description": "<p>They don't walk, and they aren't really dead. But these snails are zombies. They have been hijacked by parasites that control their brains and movements. It's a clever ploy to help the parasites' offspring spread and endure.</p>", 
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        "title": "World's Deadliest: Zombie Snails ", 
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                    "name": "Photos: \"Zombie\" Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi"
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        "transcript": "<p>Beneath this peaceful landscape...a snail has eaten parasites that've turned it into a zombie.</p><p>These spectacular...bizarre...bulging eyeballs...are the snail's tentacles.</p><p>Inside them, parasitic worms have begun an amazing feat of mind control.</p><p>These parasites have taken over the snail's tentacles...and its brain.</p><p>It's all part of an ingenious plan to extend the life of the parasite...and its offspring.</p><p>The snail has become possessed.</p><p>It is doomed now to follow the parasite's will...and the parasite is on the move...looking for another host.</p><p>Next, the parasite needs a bird.</p><p>Hypnotized...the snails march into the sunshine.</p><p>They climb from the shade...to the tips of exposed branches above.</p><p>The snail's tentacles...engorged now by their possessors...have grown to resemble a maggot.</p><p>And a maggot is the favorite food of the birds above.</p><p>In an instant...the bird attacks...and the parasite triumphs.</p><p>The parasitic worm happily multiplies in the bird's stomach.</p><p>Its final trick is to complete the cycle.</p><p>But it will have little trouble...as the snails below graze on bird droppings...filled with a new batch of mind-controlling parasites.</p><p>Once they're eaten...the hypnosis of the snails will continue...and the life cycle of the parasite...will roll on!</p>", 
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