Oh What Curious Life and Life Cycles

 This is just one example of the many strange oddities that nature has to offer us.  There is an ant that obtains a illness given to it by the spores of certain mushrooms.  They lead the ant to seek out higher grounds.  The ant is then eaten by what hunts them.  Then, in the digestive system, their "life cycle" continues by populating the stomach within what eats them.  The excrement is then distributed elsewhere...(oh I just thought of something), this is just one of the many fascinating life cycles that are intertwined with multiple organisms.  Anyway, what came to mind was that trees are also sometimes thought to even be conscious in their own way.  Earth has so much to offer but only when your willing to look for it.