Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/20/watch-this-vicious-single-celled-predator-hunt-and-devour-another-single-celled-organism.html
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Look’s like single-celled meat’s back on the menu boys!
Reminds me of my all-time-favourite Android live wallpaper:
Simple, awesome and free (it was originally a programming exercise by the developer, who then went on to create some rather nice software synths), always the first thing to get installed on any Android device I own.
Euphemism alert: “toxin ejecting harpoon-like structures”
Are there any 3D renders or perspectives of this stuff?
Not sure how it could be photographed, but would look cool.
Isn’t nature wonderful fucking bizarre.
That is super-complex behavior, for a single-celled organism! Sure, the “probe”/tentacle moves pretty much randomly, but on contact, nope, NOT random.
“Grawr!” leap, gnarl
Num Num Num!
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