The parasites that make rats fall in love with cats #rats #animals #mammals #wildlife #cats

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Do you know that there are the brain parasite that can make rats lose their fear of cats? The parasite is called Toxoplasma [music] gondii and it can be transmitted to rats through infected soil or water.

[00:00:13]Rats infected [music] with the disease behave very weirdly like being attracted to cat urine.

[00:00:19]The reason why the disease make the rats approach cats so it can complete the final stage in its life cycle [music] which is in the cat's intestines.

[00:00:28]A lot of people are actually unknowingly infected with this disease. Around 2 billion people worldwide.

[00:00:36]The disease normally doesn't cause any symptoms in humans but there has been a myth going around that the disease makes humans also love cats but that's not really true.

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