This is a Pleuronema, a hard to record unicellular organism, it can "jump" away very fast when it's startled by something. In this clip, a tiny alga is bumping into Pleuronema and scaring the bejesus out of it. 😂 . Pleuronema feeds mostly on bacteria, and it runs away when it's disturbed to protect itself from predators, at least that's what I believe. Unfortunately, there are not many studies on them. . It's tough to record it with high magnification objectives because when it jumps, it gets o

This is a unicellular organism, Dileptus, and it’s about to take a bite out of another unicellular organism. . Dileptus has an elephant-trunk-like structure that it waves around to catch food. It might look harmless, but that trunk hides tiny structures called extrusomes. When it touches a potential meal, the extrusomes shoot out, piercing the other cell and releasing digestive enzymes. In this clip, a Spirostomum loses part of its body but manages to escape, while Dileptus feeds on the dissolve

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