Alpha Wolf Brain Parasite

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A study of 26 years' worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with a parasite that can only reproduce in cats makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader. How can this be? Jeff and Anthony dive into the data, and come away thinking it has far-reaching ramification for how we all behave, every day.

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0:00.0	I just have a wife that's a VP, man.
0:18.0	This is we have concerns.
0:24.0	Hi, Jeff Kanata. Hi, Anthony Carbone. No concern citizens. Anthony, we've talked about animals. We have not. Lots. What if I just did that?
0:32.4	What if I decided I was in a contrary mood today? I don't, that doesn't, it's not a positive for me.
0:38.9	What if I was, what if I decided it was no but from here on out?
0:42.0	No but.
0:43.1	I like yes and.
0:44.9	Okay.
0:45.6	Yes, and we've talked about animals.
0:48.2	We talked a lot about kitty cats and their weird, their weird parasite that they sometimes carry right.
0:57.8	That's right.
0:59.3	The toxoplasma gondi, the little parasite that can live inside kitty cats, kitty cat poop.
1:07.3	You know, we've talked, I think, a number of times about, it's a weird thing.
1:12.1	Yeah.
1:12.3	It's a weird thing that messes people up.
1:15.1	They have a thing in their, they have a parasite in them that makes people love cats. run to their death because the parasite wants to be back
1:28.5	inside of the cat?
1:31.2	The parasite can only reproduce
1:33.6	inside a feline.
1:36.5	It can live inside any warm-blooded mammal.
1:40.2	It can hang out inside humans,
1:42.1	inside any warm-blooded mammal.
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