• Deceptichum
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    6111 months ago

    That’s stupid, why share the profits when I can take it all for myself?

    • @Exosus@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      Well if you leech too many resources one of two things will happen:

      1. The host will remove you and kill you
      2. The host dies and you along with it

      A parasite becoming too greedy will seal its own fate.

      • Deceptichum
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        211 months ago

        You forget the 3rd option, I hire some worms to eat the roots of anyone that tries to stop me and I move onto the next tree.