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this is the first time i saw an animal hypnotize another animal, this stoat dancing in front of the rabbit, the rabbit hypnotized then the stoat attack him for his family lunch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEUK5sB5vE
this is the same principle in hypnotizing a chicken , look this tutorial:
http://www.foundationtv.co.uk/brilliant ... item6.html
and search youtube with "Hypnotize A Chicken"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZZ95L2n7o

applePi wrote:this is the first time i saw an animal hypnotize another animal, this stoat dancing in front of the rabbit, the rabbit hypnotized then the stoat attack him for his family lunch:

Sure, hypnotize.

The poor animal has a parasite in the brain (or near it, I don't remember, I should check). That's the cause for its erratic behavior.

The video's montage, made to support the "hypnotize" theory, makes me cry.

Certainly has hypnotized you

luis , i have noticed some cuts in the video, but the video are by a scientific society national geographic
http://video.nationalgeographic.co.uk/v ... est-stoat/ why they fabricate the video.
in the past there are some reports about scientists who are cheating. you make me hesitate about this video and hypotized me by 90 degree from 180 (still in the middle). but i am 100% sure about the chicken hypnotized because it is tried by many free and none scientists people.
i believe that the human brain can be changed easily by outside effects because it is made from chemicals, at the end we are sleeping .

applePi wrote:, but the video are by a scientific society national geographic
http://video.nationalgeographic.co.uk/v ... est-stoat/ why they fabricate the video.

I'm not suggesting it was fabricated, or it's behavior is or isn't the result of a parasite -- but, recall that "lemmings" were video'd "jumping off a cliff" one after another -- which, in the end, was proved "false" as the videographers couldn't film them doing it, so they pushed them off -- it was a case of myth causing scientific community to force behavior...

It's a nematode, Skrjabingylus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode

Diseases and pathogens of Mustela, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, wrote: The best known parasite of stoats is the nematode Skrjabingylus nasicola, which appears to
infect all species of Mustela (Dougherty & Hall 1955). The parasite is common throughout
the Holarctic and elsewhere including New Zealand (King 1974). It causes skull deformity
by eroding bones of nasal sinuses, presumably leading to pressure on the brain.

...

Skrjabingylus may induce fits or spasms and has been associated with "dancing" behavior
or playing dead under stress (King 1989).

In case anyone is interested this is a somewhat different opinion (as always there are at least two opposed opinions) :

http://karlshuker.blogspot.it/2011/02/m ... ce-of.html

I'm in the nematode's camp. I remember a report about a population of stoats "dancers" and the autopsy of the individuals found dead later on confirmed them as infected. The nature is *FILLED* with examples of hosts behavior induced by parasites, even if admittedly 90% of the time the reason behind it it's more clear than in this case, where maybe the frenzy it's a random consequence. Anyway if you explore this realm you will find things beyond the wildest imagination.

An example -> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 161345.htm