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  1. Feb 2016
    1. As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.

      It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.

    2. As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.

      It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.

    3. As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.

      It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.

    4. As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.

      It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.

    5. As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.

      It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.

    6. As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting.

      It sounds like a natural way for cats to become skilled at hunting, or for them to get better access to food while they are still young and unskilled.

  2. Jan 2016
    1. According to Teodor Postolache, a psychiatrist and the director of the Mood and Anxiety Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, a flurry of other studies, several conducted by his own team, offers further support of T. gondii’s link to higher rates of suicidal behavior

      If infected people are more inclined to commit suicide, it could be the reason cats eat their dead owners. The parasite would then get back to the belly of the cat.

    2. Twelve of 44 schizophrenia patients who underwent MRI scans, the team found, had reduced gray matter in the brain—and the decrease occurred almost exclusively in those who tested positive for T. gondii.

      This hints that the T. gondii parasite could trigger shcizophrenia in genetically susceptible people

    3. Also, it could be women find infected men more attractive

      this would be a very interesting experiment

    1. .Thecowalmosttipstheframeover,andtheownerpunchesherintheribs.

      Really bothers me when animals are treated this way.