Watch this vicious single-celled predator hunt and devour another single-celled organism

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Look’s like single-celled meat’s back on the menu boys!

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Nature

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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.

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Euphemism alert: “toxin ejecting harpoon-like structures”

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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

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Num Num Num!

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