In the course of writing the previous entry ('My heart will go on'), I had a quick check around on the web to make sure that I had remembered all the details of the heart transplant programme correctly (that's how dedicated I am to accuracy, dear reader). Anyway, I came across the following nuggets of information in a discussion forum, and they are so wacky and wonderful I just have to share them with you. The only thing is I can't testify to the accuracy of this information (so much for dedication) as I am just copying the text wholesale, because I don't have time to research all of this. (The only changes I've made to the following is correcting spelling mistakes, e.g. they spelled octopus "octopuss" -- that is just morally wrong, unless of course it actually refers to some kind of eight-legged cat-type creature.)

So, apparently:

1) "There is a fungus in some tropical rainforest that infects an ant, then injects a chemical into the ant's bloodstream. The chemical puts the ant into a hypnotised automation, guiding it up into the treetops where the spores of the fungus burst from the ant's body, using the corpse as fertiliser.

2) It has been suggested that an octopus has small brains in each of its tentacles, but the weirdest thing is - scientists have witnessed an octopus detaching one of its tentacles and seemingly manipulating it by remote control. It's almost as though the detached limb either has its own consciousness or is under some bizarre telepathic mindset.

3) There is a group of bacteria-like life forms in North America that travels about in a single mass. It is nicknamed 'Dog's Dinner' as it looks like a puddle of sick. The creepy thing is that it doesn't have a brain or nervous system, no organs etc. It is a malleable mass of independent organisms that moves like the T-1000 across the ground.

4) There is an insect that gatecrashes an ant's nest and sprays ant pheromones everywhere to trick the ants into smelling the impostor as one of their own. It can even make pheromones to make the ants attack each other. The main aim of the chemical warfare, though, is to encourage an ant to come close enough to be able to spear its head with a straw-like mouthpiece and suck out its juices."