This Is Your Brain On Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape SocietyA riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how creaturesincluding humansact, feel, and think Parasites can live only inside another animal, and as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds