Real Life Zombies: How Parasites and Fungi Control Animal Minds

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe and unleash your inner science goblin. We see you. We respect it. What if “zombies” weren’t just fiction? In this Season 14 kickoff episode of Wildly Curious, Katy Reiss and Laura Fawks Lapole dive into the real science behind “nature zombies”—organisms that can hijack behavior, manipulate brains, and turn animals into living tools for their own survival. From parasitic fungi to mind-altering parasites, this episode explores how evolution has produced some of the mo...