Zombie makers [electronic resource] : True stories of nature's undead. Rebecca L Johnson.
Are zombies real? As far as we know, dead people do not come back to life and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers-including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp-and their victims.
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- Text Difficulty 4MG/Middle grades (4th-8th)5.3 ATOS Level800 Lexile.
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- Electronic reproduction. Minneapolis: Millbrook Press â¢, 2012. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
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Are zombies real? As far as we know, dead people do not come back to life and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers-including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp-and their victims.
