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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.
teberoth
They are kinda cute little fellas. Well cute little themsies I suppose. Kina looks like they are using little chainsaws to move/explore.
imtiredboss
#3 Don't you just hate it when you're pushing and pushing and it just goes back in because you got tired?
notblubber
It's my favorite among filter-feeding, heterotrophic ciliates.
MetaByte
no sound?
lovehandlesmessiah
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.
SkeksiLady
Stentor? I hardly knew her!
LordHotPie
...Is that a fibonacci spiral?
LoganCreed42
I wanna play spore again
Silkyninja1
I want to go play Spore now
zaqx
That game had so much promise
reichstein
Or flOw
TheDildoOfConsequences
Just as well the sound is off because this would be extremely loud.
MadeThisAccountToAnswerQuestions
Stentors are cool
TheSilverSeraph
Senator, on the other hand...
Bigmeatycurtians
If he could, he would eat you and everyone you care about
zaqx
It does look like a he
FractalChainsaw
Just living in the moment. Not a single-cellphone in sight.
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
GreenMnM
Oh look. You found fElons daddy
supertomchickenslick
Amoebaaaaaaa, amoebaaaaaaaaa
Grimmrog
*throws pokeball*
eggpresso
Oh to be a single celled organism. Such a simple life.
imtoooldforthismess
What’s the little guy bouncing around in the first video?
N9inb0x
#7 Ooo big stretch
spossistheboss
What is an egg if not a single cell?
kwent86
that spiral flagellator is beautiful. Who's a good squishy boi....you r!
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
whitefoxkei
imtiredboss
That's a lot of mitochondria
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.