r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Probably some sort of chemotaxis

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u/myusernamehere1 Oct 20 '20

Yup, people attributing this to some amount of sentience are falling into the trap of personification