Wild Tobago

Is it possible that a fungus could infect humans and over-run the world, like the cordyceps in the current hit tv series The Last of Us? Anjani Ganase discusses some fantastic parasites and where they are found.   We live in a weird and wonderful world of survival by any means necessary. Some organisms form symbiotic bonds, working together for survival. Some relationships are parasitic where one is robbed of its resources by another. Parasites occur across all the kingdoms. Here are a few parasites that have creatively mastered the art of survival.   Corpse flower ( Rafflesia keithii ). Photo courtesy Mike Prince from Bangalore, India, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Non- photosynthetic (parasitic) plants   Sounds like an oxymoron but did you know that there about 3000 species of parasitic plants in the world, making up about 1 % of the flowering plants clade. They are common to tropical forests around the ...