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But why would an organism do this to itself? It may be parasites. Three of the slugs that jettisoned their bodies in the lab were infested with tiny parasitic crustaceans, and another 39 lost part of their bodies. However all of the 64 parasite-free sea slugs stayed intact 6/ https://t.co/HUBDkUcfhW — PolitiTweet.org

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These chloroplasts can remain photosynthetically active for months, allowing their adoptive sea slug to draw energy from the sun. This may help keep the animal alive even after the slug’s head divorces itself from its body 5/ https://t.co/GU2dkx9qDy — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s possible the slugs can detect when they’ve got a bad case of parasites and write the body off as a lost cause. If a sea slug is overburdened by parasites, it can’t devote energy to reproduction—it’s true purpose on this planet 7/ https://t.co/DjgeYi6fhQ — PolitiTweet.org

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