Parasites and the Behavior of Animals

When a parasite invades an ant, does the ant behave like other ants? Maybe not-and if it doesn''t, who, if anyone, benefits from the altered behaviors? The parasite? The ant? Parasites and the Behavior of Animals shows that parasite-induced behavioral alterations are more common than we might realize, and it places these alterations in an evolutionary and ecological context. Emphasizing eukaryotic...