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A similar thing happens with Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite can only carry out its reproductive stage in the guts of felines, and it's been found that rats and mice infected with T. gondii are less afraid of cats and in some cases seek them out, increasing the chances that they will be eaten and thus transmit the parasite to a cat. Extended phenotypes are simply fascinating. I haven't read Richard's book by that title, but he makes reference to it in The Blind Watchmaker:
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