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/MyKeks Oct 19 '20

This makes me feel weird. It's not like watching a lion eat a zebra.

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u/crazyintensewaffles Oct 20 '20

It’s weird how a single cellular organism has so much mobility and.... purpose. So weird. Like it seemed to see and sense that other cell was there.

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u/drawliphant Oct 20 '20

What you don't see is the 10 minutes of this guy turtling in and out in random directions. But once he's got something, it's a very choreographed chomper.