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Spider cats (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The spiders tell themselves that they're keeping the tiny frogs around because they're killing pests and also kind of cute but, really, there is a brain parasite in the frogs' feces - tiny amounts of which are all over the floor of the spiders' burrows - which makes the spiders believe this.