Single-celled Lacrymaria olor Hunts Down Another Cell

[@JamsGerms]

I post on Instagram on a daily basis with descriptions, here is the link! instagram.com/jam_and_germs/

[@phyose4793]

Crazy how familiar this behavior of predation looks, even down to the single cell level.

[@CallMeMimi27]

Literally no different from how a snake works

[@Ryan-op7yd]

@@CallMeMimi27 snake prototypes (or protozoatypes if you feel so inclined)

[@CallMeMimi27]

@@Ryan-op7yd get out

[@dem017]

To think nature has such order and patterns we recognise while at the same time being so chaotic and wild

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

@@dem017 we ourselves are a part of it, so to say that we see order in chaos, is like saying we see "visible light" within the Em spectrum, its more like a totality statement, as we have adapted, as part of nature, to view and perceve nature in order to survive.

[@h_sarraf]

So even on a single-cellular level existence is brutal. Thanks.

[@randyg666]

Yep, beware of the Siingle Cell lives matters group

[@jarlbalgruufthegreater1758]

The world is brutal. Morals are made up

[@petrus9067]

@@jarlbalgruufthegreater1758 ignore morals and it would be worse

[@FirstnameLastname-zm6ke]

@@petrus9067 People do and it already is..

[@pavel9652]

Viruses (bacteriophages) kill half the bacteria in the oceans each day.

[@alinalexandru2466]

"Now I'm a double-cell organism!"

[@theephemeralglade1935]

Lol!

[@BL_fanboy]

Guess it already had 1 cell inside it.

[@haroldkline4898]

"Oh yeah! I'm feeling good now!!"

[@leosouzanet]

I'm inevitable...

[@son-of-Mandalore]

Technically its just a bigger cell. He's fat now

[@Vivenk88]

Without having a nervous system, it's amazing how much coordination it has.

[@rhs2881]

Nucleus of a cell is analogous to nervous system of higher organisms. Actually nervous system evolved from nucleus of unicellular organisms. :)

[@AlawiKD999]

@@rhs2881 on what bases you made your conclusion?

[@MyFriendlyPup]

God

[@ImaplanetJupiteeeerr]

@@MyFriendlyPup anal trooper

[@eytrix]

Coordination or Instinct?

[@elizabethblack3863]

When you consider that this is going on around you (and inside you), it's quite unnerving, not to mention creepy! Sometimes it's just best not to know!

[@MagklJellyBeanPastelLucidDream]

@BornConfused Cells that caused the depression: Oop, sorry, my bad.

[@skrimper]

@BornConfused good anti-suicide argument for vegans at least

[@FuzzyPurp]

LOL! God is very real

[@JunohNebula]

I've never seen a living thing emulate rubberhose cartoon physics quite like this lil guy.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Like the monster in _Yellow Submarine_ in the Sea of Monsters that hoovered everything up including itself?

[@thesilentone4024]

Poor thing looked like he was choking for a moment glade he's ok in the end. Hmmm I've wanted to test the evolution of cells and test if I can change what they breathe. But this one hmm now I know there's intriguing predator cells out there now I must know how can I force them to evolve 😭.

[@RainbowFlowerCrow]

@@thesilentone4024 NO, *DON'T!!!!* Didn't you watch Jurassic Park?! Just because we can do something, doesn't mean that we should!😅

[@thesilentone4024]

@@RainbowFlowerCrow no I mean like small not like what you think. So 1 is long neck mybe red. Now after its forced to evolve it might be very long neck or just changing colors for there new environment.

[@miguelpanta]

666 comments. he is not done yet. that was utter assimilation.

[@strong_fast_lean]

Just imagine how terrifying a predator like this would be if it were the size of a dog or something. Getting lasso-vacuum-speared by a water-bed from 20 feet away sounds like a scary way to go.

[@demonsty]

you ever see the blob remake from 1987?

[@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor]

Dude that's the stuff of nightmares lmfao ahahahahha

[@AnalogOpher]

🤣

[@zerg_burger]

Look up akira from 1988

[@MaNNeRz91]

The thing literally put his head through the arse and out the mouth of the other thing 😆

[@kitcat2449]

It's so amazing that despite being so small and simple they know what they have to do to survive

[@whiteholeeducationcenter]

It's all by accident

[@bozomori2287]

@@whiteholeeducationcenter You cant say that yet. We dont know.

[@ryanguerra2024]

@@bozomori2287 we don’t know for sure, but we can say with a reasonable certainty and a lot of scientific evidence behind us that there is likely no creator. :)

[@whiteholeeducationcenter]

@@ryanguerra2024 Yes, bulb is man made and sun is there by accident

[@ryanguerra2024]

@@whiteholeeducationcenter As far as we know and have observed, yes, yes it is.

[@VulcanXIV]

I want to one-up the other comments talking about how crazy it is that such a small organism can still show such behavior. For me, I find it more fascinating to think about how a SINGLE-CELL organism can behave like this. Like my goodness, it's a single-cell and yet it has just as many different body parts in function. Insane. Truly some osmosis-jones shit right here

[@aldopolgeo73]

Interesting how a single cell organism without brain can detect another organism, decide it can be defeated, organize its attack and deliver it, eat it, and then move to another task. Without a single neuron. It would be even more interesting an explanation of how this process happens at the molecular level.

[@just4youtube245]

Nice Post. So how do cells know what to do without a 'brain'? What tells them? It's crazy this world. Last month I looked where we lived in the universe. Then you look at this small cell surviving in its own world/universe. There's not enough time in a lifetime to comprehend it all.

[@aldopolgeo73]

@@just4youtube245 According to several sources a 200 micron wasp has the smallest brain (with 7200 neurons). It can fly, find a mate, etc. But other organism can do similar feats without a brain at all. I found this amazing and I do not understand how they do it.

[@LucasPossatti]

I want to understand it too. Can anyone link to an explanation?

[@d-boyzeighteenhundred]

@@just4youtube245 the matrix, they are coded to do such, they dont need a brain 🤫 the program running the code tells them what to do kinda like a brain lol

[@NotGoodAtCombat]

@@aldopolgeo73 Instead of a brain with neurons, cells have a nucleus inside of them, which contains the nuclear material. It's pretty much the thing that can be considered the brain of the cell. However, this is only found in Eukaryotic cells (multi-cellular organisms) and not single-celled organisms. What single-celled organisms (Prokaryotic) instead have is their nuclear material is not really enclosed within a nucleus, but instead is just in the cell. This could severely hinder their capability compared to Eukaryotic cells, but not completely limit it.

[@dothetruffleshuffle6233]

That looks like something out of a science fiction movie where this organism has grown in size and attacks a small town.

[@DeliberateContrarian]

Isn't that literally "The Blob?"

[@dothetruffleshuffle6233]

@@DeliberateContrarian there's other movies just like that, I was thinking more of a movie called the Black Scorpion.

[@EthnHDmlle]

Look up “The Thing.”

[@dothetruffleshuffle6233]

@@EthnHDmlle i like the 80s version, all the practical special effects and the paranoia the group experiences. Dope movie. I'm not too familiar with the black and white movie but the most recent Thing prequel wasn't bad, and they actually went inside that space ship.

[@jb22885]

Blob

[@scottbogfoot]

Ok, now let's get him addicted to cancerous cells.

[@scottlee38]

Seriously though.^

[@professorx3060]

Just put different receptors on it's mouth and you're good to go. Cancerous cells lose some receptors from their surface and that's how T cells find them

[@mirceskiandrej]

"We did it!!" The start of a new horror movie

[@scottlee38]

@@mirceskiandrej It'll end up being bad somehow.

[@mirceskiandrej]

@@scottlee38 imagine putting these in all humans to prevent cancer... Miracle of the millennia. And then the "new variant" of this starts attacking not just cancer cells...

[@rubysmith1564]

He's a step closer to achieving his perfect form

[@TheDiamondBladeHD]

Literally a perfect cell

[@haemogoblin7006]

@@TheDiamondBladeHD wait a min, cell actually has a vacuum cleaner tail! I guess all of us gangsta until a space pod with monke boi turns up

[@shadow479]

Lmao I got that reference

[@universalflamethrower6342]

Underrated comment

[@rubysmith1564]

Live footage of Cell growing in his pod

[@rob9086]

I have so many questions but I'll start with one:- How does he detect where his prey is?

[@AMabud-lv7hy]

Picking up vhemicals, vibrations from other organisms

[@MaxxPwrrr]

@@AMabud-lv7hy amazing.

[@Lavender_1618]

Did you just assume an asexual single cells gender to be a "he"? Lol 🤣🤣

[@saloni.sharma]

@@AMabud-lv7hy that pseudo limb thing does it by moving around, right? I'm guessing cz there's no sensory process there 🤔

[@Mysticz.]

@@Lavender_1618 it's acceptable Don't be that hurt

[@michaelojok5297]

This is so terrifying! Glad it a tiny being we don't "see" everyday

[@caijuu7775]

Interesting to see that even at this most basic of levels there exist a recognizable diversification in areas of the cell as to partition particular tasks or needs. One part is the "mouth", there are structures used for locomotion, etc.

[@disturbed157]

It behaved oddly enough like a snake especially the way it was thrashing when it was trying to injest the other cell

[@Legal_Sweetie333]

How is that interesting?

[@babidavi6910]

@@Legal_Sweetie333 It's always odd when someone who watched the video asks how someone else found it interesting. Here you are intrigued by the thumbnail but not interested by what happened in the video. That's so odd. Unless you're genuinely asking their opinion, lol.

[@RKarnage]

@@Legal_Sweetie333 I mean, its life at its most basic. How is it not? Even as a singular cell, a lifeform strives for survival. It's such a simple being, yet as far as we know, theres not even single celled organisms in other planets in our solar system.

[@Kora_Cheri]

@@RKarnage Just imagine if someone decided to take a single-celled organism and attempt to make it mutate or "evolve" if you will, into something else or something it could potentially become

[@funnyjewguy]

I didn't know they made snakes this small

[@ytastic]

Me nether irs quite interesting 🧐 lol

[@lovelyepic2069]

@Alex the Great Gamer r/wooosh

[@catherineling5437]

@@lovelyepic2069 ever heard of being sarcastic?

[@Archimedes.5000]

@@lovelyepic2069 r/fuckoffredditor

[@dabbopabblo]

@@Archimedes.5000 your ironically only proving that you don't need to be a reditor to use r/ denotations to express an opinion

[@spaceman9599]

Frightening that something as 'simple' as a single cell can be so effective as a predator.

[@MrFreakHeavy]

That's Natural Selection. The only reason they are so effective is that they were favorably selected against any other that was just slightly less fit. And finally... I think single-celled organisms _can_ be FAR more complex than multicell organisms. It just depends on where are you looking.

[@jamesbyrne9312]

How? Fascinating

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Everybody gotta eat, including Venus flytraps.

[@EvilNick81]

That's why Americans are really good hunters ...

[@jamesbyrne9312]

@@EvilNick81 I know you yanks like to claim ownership of everything but you can't claim single cell life sorry

[@Nekotico]

Nahhhh, 0:18 this proves my point, they have 3 dimensions...it's just so tiny for us but we can see literally unwraping the tail in some moment , if they are 2d that shouldn't be possible...

[@yepee1]

Crazy that cells can stretch so far... It looks like a living thinking thing. It's able to recognize food and act differently accordingly.

[@skrimper]

@@JohnDoe-on8gl it's not thinking..

[@Miltiades178]

That range is insane

[@umutmurat1017]

Needs NERF

[@randyg666]

That's what she said

[@jakewatson1160]

Imagine these aliens being as big as an elephant. What scary world we live in

[@tmsact]

That’s what she said!

[@jaspionccv9426]

Imagine finding this in Spore.

[@Nobody-ug5nv]

This is oddly terrifying

[@davidoverstreet2875]

That's what I said

[@Raj-gr6dy]

That's what she said

[@luvsdeceit]

Right ? And everyone thinks it’s so beautiful.

[@foxnike6322]

How is it terrifying though

[@figurefiguras4104]

@@foxnike6322 first it looks very alien and weird, second imo it strikes as terrifyingly nihilistic and meaningless how Life is essentially a mechanistic phenomena since single cell organisms are wayy closer to the Chemistry to Biology transition, that we're essentially molecules arranged in a much more complex way and building complicated societies yet still rose out of and subject to the same blind forces to merely perpetuate life like this nonconscious single cell organism.

[@alemon8412]

Omg the quality of this footage. Keep up the good work!

[@philjamieson5572]

Best comment yet.

[@nowknow]

How does a single cell organism like this break down and process the other organisms?

[@chandlerangol6718]

Enzymes and proteins, no different from out digestive system

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Once you rupture the cell wall, the cytoplasm is basically a soup of nutrients and proteins.

[@Gargamelle]

And I guess there as specialized organelles (lisosomas come to mind) to "inject" those digestive enzymes and don't digest itself xD so, similar chemistry to ours, different "digestive apparatus".

[@nowknow]

@@chandlerangol6718 Thanks for your very detailed answer 🙄. The peptidoglycan protects cells from destructive enzymes, so if the cell is already inside its cell wall, what's stopping those enzymes from destroying itself?

[@solarastone3526]

Thank you so much for these uploads, James! They're very fun to watch and really brighten my day. The descriptions you write are just as great as the videos themselves!

[@PNGALAN_]

this new spore update looks realistic

[@Jop_pop]

It's a smol eat smol world out there

[@catherineling5437]

@Alex the Great Gamer that’s the joke

[@mimiteas]

It is looking for more just after eating... I can relate. 😅

[@wayneliketowalk3740]

I'm fascinated by these videos you post. Thank You for sharing😁

[@pamplas2345]

Everybody gangsta until the single celled organism evolves into The Grox

[@grahams5871]

Wow. So much apparently sophisticated behaviour in such a tiny thing. Thanks for posting

[@mickwilson99]

Why "apparently sophisticated"?

[@sslavi]

@@mickwilson99 I agree, it would be more appropriate to describe it as "quite sophisticated".

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

And no brain

[@sandyo1063]

Gods design.

[@sandyo1063]

@luis No, it is the truth answer.

[@Tio_Nel]

Wow! It reminded me of "Little prince" drawings of a boa who ate an elephant

[@jessica.m.thornhill2300]

Omg yeah I see it

[@sheggers3990]

I've heard that story at school.

[@PatrickPease]

read it as a grown-up who lost a kid... beautiful and a real heart breaker

[@kord2003]

You mean hat?

[@Tig3rmisuu]

You’re right, it does look a bit like that 🎩

[@footlong4769]

Always makes me think of the idea that we are all that small to something else

[@archanabhave8282]

Predation at the single cell level. Mind blowing

[@SirSly420]

Now that's what I call a micro aggression.

[@Microscopyenthusiast]

How long does it take it to digest that food?

[@denissaliaj9459]

About some minutes i guess. Its not really digestion, just the cell inside the body stops moving ,chemistry is already part of the cell

[@pavel9652]

​@@denissaliaj9459 I am no expert by any means, but this is my understanding. it is not clear who ate who since everything is mixed together in one cell ;)

[@professorx3060]

@@denissaliaj9459 there are specific vesicles packed with enzymes that digest food in unicellular organisms. That takes some time.

[@notdolandark]

It always amazes me how well evolved small/unicellular creatures are

[@NowThatsASpicyMeatball]

Same here! I have my own microscope just to watch cells.

[@elijahshadbolt7334]

It pleases me, but does not surprise me, because it had an intelligent designer.

[@yassiraykhlf5981]

Hahaha hilarious

[@psisis7423]

@@elijahshadbolt7334 Darwin?

[@123cityperson]

@@elijahshadbolt7334 wait till everyone from churches and laboratories fight each other to the death

[@jax3172]

This is little scary but fascinating :D

[@fabricebareille]

woooww!!!! Definitely one of the very best "microscopic" videos I've ever seen!!!!!!! Congrats James!!!!

[@vikasjha8199]

The nature of existence/life remains the same, just a bit of extra sophistication 😂

[@jetpaq]

Thus is the most vicious, horrific attack I've ever seen.

[@j.f.fisher5318]

This should be the opening scene of a horror movie.

[@AC-ql5gb]

How do u drive home the point that its a single cell doing all this?

[@michellewhatsherface2749]

I could see it. Like it’s the premise of the movie, just flat out, first frame into the movie. Zero context. An eerie chelo playing as we watch it hunt. Chelo stops playing abruptly when it’s consumed annnnnnd next beat after silence TITLE.

[@555droid6]

We always see them through a 2D perspective but I want to see what it looks like for them

[@Adityarm.08]

At that scale there are no eyes to see. I like to think of them as blobs, when on surface they flatten a bit due to weight. Not sure how correct this is though.

[@Adityarm.08]

​@Funtime Florian "most amoebae are extremely flat when viewed in profile". Estimation of amoeba cell volume from nuclear diameter and its application to studies in protozoan ecology Andrew Rogerson, Helen G. Butler & Jeremy C. Thomason Am I misinterpreting this abstract from springer research paper?

[@pewpew3671]

@@Adityarm.08 dude snakes are also flat when viewed in profile

[@Adityarm.08]

@@pewpew3671 that is a research paper on volume estimation which is stating that diameter in microscope can't be relied upon as that'll lead to overestimation due to flattening.

[@Adityarm.08]

@@pewpew3671 my point was related to the above thread, do microbes like amoeba flatten a bit due to weight when on surfaces. Obviously snakes do. Viruses are a counter example - probably too light & rigid for that blob like trait.

[@TJSaw]

Even if we find single celled life like this on another world, it will be the biggest discovery in the history of mankind.

[@MidnightToker24]

The new Spore game looks crazy!

[@Ben-Ken]

This is somehow more horrifying than any lion hunt video I've ever seen.

[@charliepeck4353]

That thing is honestly terrifying.

[@HCforLife1]

Exactly my thoughts. Despite just eating - viciously try to hunt a half second after. Very disturbing. Most animals just attack, eat, and rest. This tiny sht just consumed another one and craved for more

[@randyg666]

Yes proof of evolution

[@charliepeck4353]

@@randyg666 really? It doesn’t look like it is changing into another type of organism to me.

[@randyg666]

@@charliepeck4353 product of

[@OCDlosp]

@@randyg666 doubt it

[@A3Kr0n]

His mom never taught him to chew his food.

[@yuwelcome]

Imagine just walking on a day out and getting sucked in by a giant ass snake thing and eaten alive to be part of it forever.

[@varunpathak2969]

His fitness regime- Swallowing food fast, then immediately working out.

[@yellowfrog2259]

These are pretty much single cell *snakes.* Very interesting.

[@FireN2k9]

They swallowed their food whole and are very stretchy, I thought the same :)

[@YouCountSheep]

@authorization batman You good sir have to broaden your horizon of definitions. It most certainly is at least a 90% Snek when identified by Internet video.

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

Boa constrictor micro version : )

[@karolakkolo123]

@authorization batman that was a metaphor not a scientific description, stop being so literal in a youtube comments section

[@AB-1023]

You can see that little bugger fighting to get away it seems when it’s about to get eaten all the way. Freaky as hell

[@christophermccutcheon2143]

Wow, Spore 2 is really coming along. The cell stage looks way more diverse this time.

[@kiraxxxxxxxxx]

I almost put a comment about the "New Spore trailer"...

[@matthewhaubrich7524]

How is it able to move like that with no muscles?

[@CohnmanTheBudbarian]

Does that mean single cells are carnivorous, or is this cannibalism? Fascinating regardless.

[@powers6253]

Only cannibalistic if they are the same species. Multi-organisms eat other multi-celled organisms (ie: snakes and mice are both multi-celled)

[@carlpanzram2012]

This really goes to demonstrate that single cells arent necessarily simple at all. I cant even imagine the possible complexity of multicelled organisms, because most bigger animals cells are surprisingly similar and simple, but can you imagine what POSSIBLE? Imagine a bunch of comparatively complex cells making up a organisms. That is an insane amount of function.

[@pavel9652]

Eucaryotic cells are complex. Most people when they think single-cell organism they mean procaryotic, that is bacteria for instance. Valonia ventricosa is the largest single-celled organism (eucaryotic) on earth and is the size of an apple ;) Read about protists if such organisms interest you.

[@ceiling_cat]

This is how cats see vacuum cleaners

[@ziggityzee3230]

Ive never seen microorganisms react in such a way... its like some kind of cgi horror movie i love it

[@matthew2091]

I am amazed how one single cell is able to “think”.

[@yourdaddy5876]

They don't think 🤭

[@zqzj]

@@yourdaddy5876 what is thinking? 🤔

[@kaylor87]

@@yourdaddy5876 What do you call it then? This thing is definitely sentient.

[@yourdaddy5876]

@@kaylor87able to" think" the cell is hungry🤭🤣

[@DinulMindula]

@@yourdaddy5876 It is hungry and it senses something edible and it reacts to it. Just like larger predators feels hungry see the prey and reacts to it. Just the senses and reaction are complex.

[@ajaykumar-ve5oq]

this organism questions how intelligence can function in most rudimentary organism one can only Imagine how conscious they are

[@ieabraham]

Any relation between the name of this organism and our tearducts? Aka lacrimal ducts EDIT: Turns out Lacrymaria olor means "swan tear" in Latin! How fun :)

[@leesonneville1817]

Whoever named it probably had a great sense of vitreous humor

[@spaceman9599]

THEY LIVE THERE! Just kidding ...

[@zMustyz]

It's like Cell from Dragon ball Z, using his tail to absorb people.

[@MARTINZCRACK]

Este es uno de los mejores vídeos que he visto de micro organismos. Se puede apreciar un poco como se mueven en 3D incluso, está excelente

[@mikeb1596]

"Get over here!"

[@TheSaltydog07]

It's beautiful. Thank you 😊❤️

[@abdullahnezar2801]

Where did you get this fascinating specimen?!

[@skjorta1984]

oh I get it it looks like a Teardrop that's why it's called lacrymaria

[@charcoal8445]

I think it's more because the way that tendril moves makes you want to cry

[@TylerCMilligan]

@@charcoal8445 This

[@barahng]

The way its "neck" undulates searching for more prey at the end will haunt my dreams.

[@9423sachi]

I am curious that if they are single cell then how he is having complex structure. I used to think that for this type of structure need many many cells.

[@alllanbradley6007]

These videos are AMAZING!!

[@michael--a--sometimes]

Look at it going all out party mode after gobbling up its prey

[@pietrovinciguerra7716]

This is me when I try to fit all my books in my backpack before school

[@mark6302]

a sentient loogie viciously devours it's enemy

[@gibbogle]

Dinner, not enemy. Is a fish your enemy when you catch and eat it?

[@mark6302]

@@gibbogle its your opponent, so, yes

[@Sombriio]

@@gibbogle yes

[@gibbogle]

@@mark6302 Is cabbage your opponent when you eat it?

[@mark6302]

@@gibbogle only if its done in the name of revenge because the cabbage kidnapped your daughter

[@OlaftheGreat]

This is a solemn reminder that even at the microscopic level there is always something fighting for survival

[@leobrown121]

What a creation! The sence of cell is sensational..

[@MeysamShojaeeNejad]

At the end of the video, it seems the plan to find a pray for this single cell 'hunter' is simply to sneak everywhere randomly.

[@professorx3060]

Not randomly, it follows trails of increasing concentration of certain molecules. At the end it got confused with molecules left from the already eaten prey.

[@AvengedStrikeGaming]

So this is the cell that Cell from Dragon Ball Z was modeled after. Makes sense!

[@delcox8165]

I was hoping someone would say it.

[@Megaghost_]

It's always a pleasure to watch your videos.

[@cvtt3194]

I can't even... This is amazing!

[@WhyyyJamal]

It is beautiful seeing such small microorganisms feeding on one another. Truly magnificent

[@dinohunter7176]

The tail movement is probably like a proximity sensor...interesting organism.

[@professorx3060]

The higher the concentration of some molecules, the closer it is to it's prey. It just follows higher concentration of those indicators.

[@irok1]

@@professorx3060 ...which makes it a proximity sensor

[@Muscleupsanddangles]

That movement looks purposeful.

[@goyonman9655]

Right??

[@aldebaran584]

It is, I find it really cool that even such tiny organisms can have a microcosm of agency

[@VanZibarX]

*This is freaking scary*

[@baconninja4481]

This isn’t a single celled organism hunting another single celled organism, it’s just playing Snake!

[@harrymills2770]

"You've killed hundreds of cells!" "Yes, but they were all bad."

[@jerrylisby5376]

Judge: I hope you like your new jail cell.

[@delicious619]

I wonder if the other thing inside of it is another cell already digesting or if it is the digestive system. It looks like it just kept searching for something else to eat. Does it feel full and stop looking for food? Maybe it just keeps eating and expanding. The behavior of life looks so different on a small scale, but oddly the same.

[@childofcascadia]

No. They search pretty much constantly when they are active, although they do take little rest breaks. Unlike an animal who has fat, they dont really have way to store excess energy, so they eat a lot to keep up their energy so they can reproduce (by fission- it takes a lot of energy to do thar). And they arent incredibly successful hunters compared to the macroworld predators, because they dont really have senses like sight and hearing. So they spend a lot of their time just flailing around their "head" trying to pick up a signature of a wandering microbe thru touch or chemical traces.

[@mohamedishan2108]

Amazing how the single cellular world is so much similar to the multi cellular world in terms of survival.

[@dooflydetailguuy4349]

Somewhere out there, there is an organism looking at our civilization through a microscope

[@sethjansson5652]

Survival is the gravity of life

[@sumeshrajurkar5922]

It was fascinating calculation, comparing single cell's ability to extend reach with humans. Thank God they are small, we would be running for life if they were dog size.

[@TransAmDrifter]

I wonder if You'll be still thanking god when his godly plan will consist of Your (or Your beloved ones') death caused by one of his tiny bacteria/virus? According to Your beliefs of course, because I perspnally don't believe in fiction.

[@pepelefrog1121]

@@TransAmDrifter tell me how many lines of c++ have you written in the last year that perfects physics simulation in cocos2d, please. Lets see how "science guy" you are.

[@TransAmDrifter]

@@pepelefrog1121 ask physics professors. They most probably written the same amount. What does Your comment even mean? =D You have some kind of self respect issues and You're healing them by telling people they are less "science" than You are? Hehehe =D

[@RedLancerMoto]

@@TransAmDrifter Do you believe in stupid?

[@TransAmDrifter]

@@RedLancerMoto Oh, yes. And most of them stupid people believe in different kind of gods and other delusions.

[@gianluca6058]

I would watch it for hours! Pls post longer videos!

[@feeeyniac]

"Guys i remembered a mobile-game like this" "Wait, its real"

[@captainpotato8823]

now that's a horrifying tiny creature 🙂

[@ianrunacres]

How can a single cell have a mouth? Yikes.

[@pinecedar180]

Wow did know that this kind of stuff goes on at such a small level too.

[@lulubegaga]

This might just be one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life. Awesome

[@Topical_Solution]

What a weird little guy

[@RandomPerson-iy1on]

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[@TOAST3D]

Lol

[@tomnguyen7371]

Lol

[@gunther2690]

Lol

[@mgtowanonymous3120]

Lol

[@plushseries7685]

Lol

[@alexanderplatypus3664]

Wow. I can't wait for Wildlife videos to be covering Unicellular life forms now. Awesome... creepy but interesting. Now I have questions about all those much smaller little things all over I assume those are bacteria? And then at the end another large life form shows up on the right side. Maybe do more videos of different Eukayrotic "hunter" cells? Showing how they behave in their "habitats". Or even you could show the "boring" life of photosynthesizers or other autotrophs.

[@Efsiksotu]

Lacrymaria always reminds me of the loch ness monster

[@004chestnut8]

The jerky movements are giving me stomachaches