Yay! I was rooting for the Stentor. Damned Amoebae are so sneaky. My wife eats pizza the same way; slowly surrounds it and ingests it (phagocytosis) then, like a contractile vacuole, ejects it the following day.
A terrific video! I imagine that it is not often that an Amoeba snares a Stentor for lunch. But the video also shows Stentor's ability to regenerate itself, even from a relatively small piece of the original organism. At the end, we see the Stentor happily swimming away,
Thank you for uploading this. I did a microscopy project a few years ago using water and sediment samples from local ponds and Stentor was the one thing I was completely unable to identify. I had absolutely no idea what it was. Now I finally know.
Excellent video and capture of this event. Having spent many hours studying protozoa I've never seen anything quite like that. Thanks for uploading it.
I think it's more like the stentor cut its way out and regenerated a new tail. The part that was eaten was most of the old body and tail. It salvaged as much as it could from this and then escaped.
It probably has a feeder line into what would be the tail. When the original tail got cut off, the feederline pumped liquid into the remaining body, and it extended until a new tail was visible. Kind of like having your blood shot through your veigns at a few tens of bar, to your feet. If your leg gets cut off, and skin grows, the pressure will push down the skin to grow a new tentacle (limb)
Especially, because there are only 4 known people that got the Amoeba parasite and acually survived... all the others died. yes it's so cute, eating you from the inside out
I was so sure the Stentor was going to win. Big mouth and rotating hairs to push it in. But Amoeba is like jelly, I guess, and will not be pushed. Instead, surrounds and engulfs. Great monster movie base. Thanks for sharing this amazing part of the world.
And this is why amoeba is my favourite micr-organism,it keeps eating till it gets bigger,did you know,people found an amoeba in a cave that ate so much it was barely visible by the human eye,it feeds on bats droppings
Ah he's fine. Stentors can get cut into many, many pieces and each one will just regenerate into a new Stentor. Can't count how many times this happened to me in agar.io ..
Man, I came here from an article about the universe and non-life to life. First I watched an amoeba eat a paramecium not really thinking it'd be too interesting; Then fuckin BAM the amoeba engulfed the two paramecium and they fucking lost their shit in its food vacuole. I think I have a microscopic gore fetish, this shit is weird.
Amazing on how much is going on in a drop of water. Life at micro level is so strange but interesting and even a little scary but I'm hooked I've been watching these videos so long I swear I look at things in very peculiar way
Amoeba: ah stentor, my trusted enemy Stentor: we meet again viejo amigo Amoeba: youre dead to me and my family Stentor: you too idiot, now go away unless you want problems Amoeba: don't think i will Stentor: so it's gonna be like that huh? well prepárate amigo **Amoeba eats the stentor body some minutes later and the head runs away** TAN TAN FIN
Thank you so much ... Videos like these make kids study so much easier. I am a mom of inquisitive 9 year old. Can you please tell me which microscope shall I purchase for him to at least be able to see Euglenas, Amoebas, algae and protozoa little clearly. Is 1200X power enough to view these? Please guide. Thank you
Hi Sadaf, don´t look for magnification. 1000x magnification would mean 100x objective in combination with a 10x ocular. I removed 100x objective from my microscope some time ago, as I rarely used it. And it´s not easy to work with 100x objectives, you need to be well experienced and have a very good microscope. Most of the times, I use objectives up to 20x, occasionally 40x. I did not document, which objective I used for this video, but for sure not more than 20x. My other video, "Cosmarium sp (green algae) - cell division" was recorded using a 40x objective. Which microscope: I answered this question some months ago, but not sure how to put a link here (if that is possible, at all), so just a copy/paste: This video was done with an approximately 40+ year old Zeiss Standard 16. I paid approximately 400 USD for the complete microscope. No special objectives or techniques were used for this video. You may also look for an "old" Olympus, Leitz or similar brands. Microscopic forums are helpful to get guidance on what to buy and how to use a microscope, also where to find samples to look at. Hope this helps, wish you and your child much fun!
That is enough. I recommend you find someone who works with microscopes to help your child as higher magnification can be complicated because you have to use a different adjustment knob to zoom in. I hope your kid loves it! I was the exact same.
that amoeba knows EXACTLY what he's doing! At the end it looks like the stentor is trying to break off... omg he did! yay he got away kinda and the amoeba got some lunch!
Amazing! I had no idea at the start who would win the life/death battle. Both won, in a way. The amoeba got a huge meal, and part of the stentor escaped. It might grow back into a full stentor.
man life as a single cell organism would suck if they had the ability to think or feel. good thing thats not the case and this was completely fine for this guy to go through. he literally didnt care at all.
@@KambizMT thanks! I also take samples sometimes, but living in Central London I am sometimes restricted in options Do you normally take samples from the surface, underwater or from the bed of the pond?
@@Neuromant1991 I take samples from all areas, if possible. Also sometimes samples from garden ponds. I live in a small city in Germany with only a few ponds, but not all are exciting:-) . I found nice organisims in one dry moss sample from Madeira, after incubation with water for some weeks ! Good luck.
