Wildlife managers have speculated on why New York's moose populations have failed to grow beyond 600 to 800 individuals, ...

Giant liver flukes are parasitic flatworms carried by deer and moose that can grow up to eight centimeters long. In moose, they can cause liver failure and ultimately death.

Box: Liver fluke life cycle. the zombie ant: The liver fluke infects an ant’s brain causing it to clamp onto a blade of grass so that its next host – a cow, sheep, deer orother grazer – eats it.

So like if 10% of the world population is killed by the lancet liver fluke they can say that relative to nuclear holocaust it was a pretty positive outcome. ... sheep or deer come to graze, ...

The lancet liver fluke has a cunning — some might say horrifying — way of ensuring its survival. It turns ants into zombies. That’s how researchers who study this tiny parasitic flatworm ...

Brain power: The lancet liver fluke switches 'zombie mode' on and off in its host's brain at different times of the day Depositphotos View 2 Images ...

Sickness, not stubbornness, is the most likely explanation for the animal’s “unusual behaviors,” which prompted the unusually ...

This year’s research also included sampling white-tailed deer pellets and water sources to detect and better understand the prevalence and distribution of brain worm and giant liver fluke across ...