I read years ago a list of habits that entrepreneurs share. One involved cats as pets - which I dismissed as correlation, not causation. But, recent and quickly evolving research indicates the old correlation may have causation.
It turns out, cats can bring toxoplasmosis oocytes to maturity because of their high linoleic acid content. All other animal "hosts" can only ingest the oocytes and distribute them in nature. Those hosts are useless unless a cat can eventually eat them and bring those oocytes back into a cat to multiply.
Here's the weird part, those oocyte "infections" (infections where the invader does not multiply) cause the host to become less fearful - of anything.
mice are less afraid (even attracted) to cat urine, and wolves will become more aggressive with other wolves to the point they either become pack leader or get driven out of the pack. Humans are more likely to drive aggressively and more likely to start their own business.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/toxoplasmosis-risk-wolves-cats-mice
It turns out, cats can bring toxoplasmosis oocytes to maturity because of their high linoleic acid content. All other animal "hosts" can only ingest the oocytes and distribute them in nature. Those hosts are useless unless a cat can eventually eat them and bring those oocytes back into a cat to multiply.
Here's the weird part, those oocyte "infections" (infections where the invader does not multiply) cause the host to become less fearful - of anything.
mice are less afraid (even attracted) to cat urine, and wolves will become more aggressive with other wolves to the point they either become pack leader or get driven out of the pack. Humans are more likely to drive aggressively and more likely to start their own business.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/toxoplasmosis-risk-wolves-cats-mice