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@dr.bio4ever : It is hard to believe that this microorganism is made of just one single cell!
All the videos in this post are portraying the same microorganism (the protozoan Stentor) at different magnifications.
Despite being a single-cell microorganism, Stentor displays an incredibly complex behavior, such as its ability to sense and respond to changes in its environment.
For example, when threatened, Stentor can rapidly contract its trumpet-shaped body, shrinking in size quickly to avoid harm. Another incredible behavior is its ability to switch between anchoring itself to a surface to feed or detaching and swimming freely depending on the conditions.
It blows my mind that a single cell microscopic creature can have such sophisticated behavior!
Biology is just amazing!!
For these videos I used an Olympus CX31 microscope at up to 200x magnification.
NopeForever
The cell of a single-celled animal has to be pretty complicated. The cells of a multiple-celled animal are simple in comparison since each of those cells doesn't have to do everything.
Hairymonkeyman
Protozoan, just like Trump's brain.
SkeksiLady
Stentor? I hardly knew her!
GreenMnM
Oh look. You found fElons daddy
teberoth
They are kinda cute little fellas. Well cute little themsies I suppose. Kina looks like they are using little chainsaws to move/explore.
Watchadave
It gets cilia and cilia.
imtoooldforthismess
What’s the little guy bouncing around in the first video?
TheDildoOfConsequences
Just as well the sound is off because this would be extremely loud.
FractalChainsaw
Just living in the moment. Not a single-cellphone in sight.
supertomchickenslick
Amoebaaaaaaa, amoebaaaaaaaaa
Grimmrog
*throws pokeball*
N9inb0x
#7 Ooo big stretch
MetaByte
no sound?
drums4lyfe
Chainsaw mohawk engage!
eggpresso
Oh to be a single celled organism. Such a simple life.
spossistheboss
What is an egg if not a single cell?
Bigmeatycurtians
If he could, he would eat you and everyone you care about
zaqx
It does look like a he
whitefoxkei
imtiredboss
That's a lot of mitochondria
kwent86
that spiral flagellator is beautiful. Who's a good squishy boi....you r!
MadeThisAccountToAnswerQuestions
Stentors are cool
TheSilverSeraph
Senator, on the other hand...
annonymouse211
Looks like a lil squishy roomba trying to get around that brown stuff with their whirring little legs like "oop - bonk - nope not through there!"
sarzaya
I thought it looked like Gustav Klimt's The Kiss https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-kiss-gustav-klimt/HQGxUutM_F6ZGg?hl=en&avm=2
thefadedmoon
Guess he'll celia 'round.
notblubber
It's my favorite among filter-feeding, heterotrophic ciliates.
LoganCreed42
I wanna play spore again
LordHotPie
...Is that a fibonacci spiral?
imtiredboss
#3 Don't you just hate it when you're pushing and pushing and it just goes back in because you got tired?
lovehandlesmessiah
charleskat
Nice! However, the term protozoa was deprecated decades ago - protists now!
Silkyninja1
I want to go play Spore now
zaqx
That game had so much promise
reichstein
Or flOw
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Wikipedia says they can grow up to 2mm which is visible to the naked eye. That is a big cell.
haggerton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophorea<">a">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophorea</a>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Those are awesome, great links!
FirstMlemHero
A chicken egg is a single cell. An ostrich egg. Etc.
MBTerrorKitten
I know anx understand this and its still weird to me
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Sure but those aren't really alive yet, just a container. That thing is moving around and consuming to produce energy.
nik282000
If you're curious I caught the cilia at 600fps:
tavinjer
That’s awesome! Do you post your work online anywhere?
nik282000
I post very infrequently on YouTube under channel name "nik282k"
zaqx
Needs a soundtrack
zaqx