Toxoplasma gondii (/ˈtɒksəˌplæzmə ˈɡɒndi.aɪ, -iː/) is a species of parasitic alveolate that causes toxoplasmosis.[3] Found worldwide, T. gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm-blooded animals,[4]: 1 but members of the cat family (Felidae) are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite may undergo sexual reproduction.[5][6]
Can infect basically any mammal, but cats are their preffered hosts.
They kill rats.
Keep the granaries uninfested.
And roughly half of them also carry a parasite that rewires the brain/neurological DNA of humans via epigenetic manipulation.
Also they can be adorable.
I thought that parasite wasn’t carried long-term by cats, only by humans?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
Can infect basically any mammal, but cats are their preffered hosts.