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Credits:
Dr Frederic Libersat’s Lab, BenGurion University of the Negev
Dr Cameron Radford, UNSW
Anna & Ned DeLoach    / @blennywatcher  
Benedikt Pleyer    / @nomadicnostoc  
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Steve Trewhella    / stevetrewhella  
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Ben Yexley
Melissa McMasters
Nate Yuen

Additional footage licensed from:
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Citations:
Frederic Libersat, Ram Gal, Wasp Voodoo Rituals, VenomCocktails, and the Zombification of Cockroach Hosts, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 54, Issue 2, July 2014, Pages 129–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu006

Kobayashi K, Kumakura M, Yoshimura K, Inatomi M, Asami T. Fine structure of the tongue and lingual papillae of the penguin. Arch Histol Cytol. 1998 Mar;61(1):3746. doi: 10.1679/aohc.61.37. PMID: 9557966.

Noel, A. C., & Hu, D. L. (2018). The tongue as a gripper. The Journal of experimental biology, 221(Pt 7), jeb176289. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.176289

Radford, C., McNutt, J.W., Rogers, T. et al. Artificial eyespots on cattle reduce predation by large carnivores. Commun Biol 3, 430 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s4200302001...

A. WeiselEichler, G. Haspel, F. Libersat; Venom of a parasitoid wasp induces prolonged grooming in the cockroach. J Exp Biol 15 April 1999; 202 (8): 957–964. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.202.8.957