A tangent inspired from a different topic:
In nature this is sometimes true, but not when parasites are very good at moving to a new host. That’s of course what hedge fund managers like Shkreli are used to; they don’t care about the long term because they expect to find new prey somewhere else.
That’s not actually to disagree with the point. It just reminded me of something I thought parasite fans might like – don’t look at me, we have them here. Mostly mind control gets talked up, but I missed the chance for a 28 days later post, so instead an example of this kind of effective movement from host to host: tiny worms that kill one insect and then jump to others nearby.
There was a SciAm blog post by Frazer last month about these: leaping nematodes. For people who aren’t fans of parasites, I think this drawing is probably as much as you want to see, but for those interested she gives a review complete with pictures and videos.
