Amoeba meets Stentor

[@blahblahblahblah2837]

That was so stressful!
Ive never been so invested in the fate of a single cell before...

[@drmadra]

Were you for the amoeba or the stentor?

[@blahblahblahblah2837]

The stentor for sure! He was just minding his own business when the amoeba mounted it (without it's consent or knowledge!)

[@ethanJ496]

aMOEba.

[@DaNyAaLcEc]

lol

[@ladyathenaofowls]

illusiwind Amoebamba

[@SnoopyDoofie]

He should have dialed 911 on his cell phone.

[@TumbleTrashOfficial]

by donshkey

[@kari3147]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DarkKnight-wr1el]

you must be crazy to call cops. They'll shoot you down and then realize how microscopic the issue was.

[@icarustanovic3097]

Arjun Sujo You mean tissue?

[@luvurlife20]

Best comment of the year!!! 😂😂

[@mysterygirlski]

LMFAO at 3:15 another stentor pokes in like "hey guys whats goi- Oh shit nevermind peace out" XD

[@lynny7868]

lmao

[@x-90]

It's already dead by then

[@skyschermerhorn9383]

That's funny as hell!

[@sheezusx2]

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

[@inactiveaccount5455]

#sigled celled organisms have lifes

[@MassaJim]

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.

[@petrov8086]

This is scary. I'll not marry.

[@BothHands1]

Jeeeez lol

[@francescomarangoni]

This is the most beautiful thing I have evrer read😂

[@thatboyj3483]

MassaJim how does it digest it if is so big

[@zenlyllic]

what the fuck

[@Poodleinacan]

Damn..... They may not have a brain, but they are still trying to survive.

[@jdelectro]

This can be said about anybody lol

[@auri1075]

@@jdelectro and almost any living being...

[@stillsuitstk]

@Chita Cheetah they dont have even single 1 neuron, so no brains

[@adygombos4469]

@Chita Cheetah You can't just get corrected and say woosh.

[@Exedus20]

AOC

[@BillPorter1456]

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,

[@dozua]

> happily
more like scarred for life

[@ronan2004]

I was expecting the stentor to pop like a balloon

[@chiefwilly4156]

Fairly certain they have no emotions

[@Xezlec]

Well, we don't really know how healthy the remaining part is. For example, did the surviving part wind up with the macronucleus? I can't tell.

[@eggy60]

@@Xezlec it looked like it had at least a part of the macronucleus which means he should have enough to recreate the whole thing!

[@PlatinumCRV]

There's no chill in the microscopic world either, huh?

[@mattbeck9526]

Q: So, after engulfing the stentor, what did the amoeba have for desert?
A: Paramisu!

[@gaurimahajan8410]

😂

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

CARLOS.

[@audng9934]

I love this. Too much.

[@BothHands1]

😂

[@rochelimit55555]

no please NO!

[@entrippyZ]

Life is absurdly resilient at this level, oh no big deal my "head" is intact I'll just GROW A NEW EVERYTHING and be on my way.

[@potatoman8609]

it's nucleus is gone so it ded

[@dimetrodon2250]

mlp guy stentor are multi-nucleated, so it’s probably fine

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

@MindMachine- Killing something for lunch can be **TOUGH**! Lions, tigers & bears find that out early-on...

[@theshermantanker7043]

Not really, Stentor is just an exceptionally resilient specimen, most other cells would 100% be killed when ripped up like the one shown here

[@mattbeck9526]

It's a tough life as a protozoan. Get more than half digested and have to pinch yourself off at the waist just to get away. All in a days work.

[@SanketDube]

That exploding cell video has messed up my suggestions now :/

[@RageXBlade]

Bruh same

[@bobderbraumeister6919]

Same

[@joeljones585]

Lmao same

[@CitrineFaerie]

Yep

[@riossioseternal4837]

Lmao yeah. That vid came out of nowhere and now I'm seeing so many microbe vids

[@camipeterson6683]

1:20 "Oh shit Carl that's an amoeba, let's get out of here! Carl.....Carl?"

[@spacemanspiff6332]

Stentor pulls out like a true gentleman.

[@gabrielrojas8718]

Aahh this is better than lions vs zebras on national geographic 😊

[@plainlogic]

Where the tribal nudity tho

[@Daruqe]

Well yeah cause presumably these don't feel pain.

[@plainlogic]

@@Daruqe presumably

[@mako3951]

@@Daruqe well they do have reactions to negative stimuli. Does that count as pain?

[@dimkacracker]

so this is where they get their horror movie ideas.

[@sciencemre]

That is really an incredible capture under the microscope. Nice job.

[@pettibones]

3:16
"Hey Joe, you wanna go watch the game at Hoo....oh sorry, bro, didn't know you had company...."

[@sheezusx2]

LEGIT

[@seanconfer7903]

He made it! Yeah!! Well most of him anyway :D

[@arathgomez615]

Yay(: he will survive and Coke back for revenge

[@haruzumiya4984]

+Theocles Saturn that's sad ):

[@haruzumiya4984]

+Theocles Saturn can't it move it's nucleus to the 'head' then escape? or is the nucleus in stentor fixed in a place?

[@Empress544]

+Theocles Saturn Actually Stentor has lots of copies of its DNA and has the ability to fully regenerate!

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

It is more like one third of him

[@RebelliousTreecko]

Pretty sure I'm one of the only people in my town who would call a microorganism "cute".

[@AnkleGremlin]

Rebellious Treecko. I do too. it's so cute I wanna die

[@leonielovemusic]

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

[@RebelliousTreecko]

Miss Skyla
Was talking about the Stentor.

[@GarryDumblowski]

Stentor is adorable.
Amoebas are terrifying killing monsters.

[@jadeshiota784]

Rebellious Treecko you're one of those people that would find a piece of shit cute.

[@nascraytia]

It's interesting how the original one decided that it was too late for it to live, so it made a new one and let that one get away.

[@unghuugh916]

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.

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

Ungh Uugh An object-lesson for Mankind: *Get out* while the getting-is-good...

[@ThePhantomSafetyPin]

Wow, it literally just mitosed in order to save itself! That's so cool!

[@zoz0boy]

CLASSICALFAN100 sir that is a beautiful thought, may i use it in my thinking process?

[@ProDigit80]

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)

[@VAROOMS4]

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.

[@abyssssb913]

I cried as the amoeba choked and disfigured the stentor but I am very glad that it survived.

[@sheezusx2]

DUDE, SAME

[@deadzed2493]

Oh, actually...
The stentor just made it way out by itself.
Just imaging cutting a half of your body just to get out of your hellhole.

[@jg-uf4co]

That was so cool! love phagocytosis and still can't believe that 'stentor' was still able to function after ripping itself

[@albeon_draken]

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.

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

6:21 Stentor: "FREE AT LONG LAST!"
Amoeba: "You think you won this battle? Look behind you... Skrub"

[@blinxcat]

Lol

[@brianbridges5050]

no 5799 years

[@teawrecks1243]

Sort of like a micro version of a lizard dropping its tail to flee a predator. Neat.

[@julioequinones]

epic battle for life.. at first I thought that it was going to be the stentor doing the eating

[@marcojust124]

amoeba are too badass to be eaten

[@nunzioforpresident]

3:05 that other Stentor was like ..nope!

[@RickRando001]

Amoeba - "Oh hai Stentor"
Stentor - "You are tearing me apart"

[@NeAndresthal]

Lol

[@funkisopod]

That other stentor was a backstabber

[@jdrake33]

2:35
Amoeba: "I vill break you."

[@carinachin6447]

Morgan Freeman: And so continues the life of the amoeba. Forever lost in the microcellular world of death, fair and destruction.

[@overlycreative1]

You should seek a career in writing. Smiles to you.

[@PintuSingh-dq1ld]

Stentor: you can eat me only half
Amoeba: ¿¿¿

[@sheezusx2]

I love this comment section so much.

[@eigenman2571]

I can’t believe an amoeba somehow managed to eat half a stentor

[@helifalic]

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 ..

[@M0chabean]

Nice job - well done capture. Biology teachers like me thank you!

[@DenibeustheGamer]

I live how at 3:15 the stentor's just "Dude, you ok- nOPE BYEE"

[@mug1wara262]

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

[@andrewcurry9910]

Where can I find this?

[@yogaagungnugroho1528]

6:20 Stentor be like "Nope, See you next time, dude"

[@Magnetar_Haunt]

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.

[@kronix232]

What an emotional roller-coaster...

[@myamazingsmallworld5037]

Absolutely hypnotic to watch - fantastic!

[@johngritjohngrit140]

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.

[@SadSpectacle1]

Awesome footage, I have heard about this in school but seeing it in action was something else.

[@gavincurtis]

You should have been able to see it live. Or are they not doing that anymore in schools?

[@martinavaslovik3433]

Fascinating video! Thank you! Very nice work and a great catch!

[@LunoRawke]

In the end, the stentor survived and the amoeba had its lunch.

[@sharonwoodard1008]

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

[@ChaosMagnet]

I guess we can safely assume that Stentor find Amoebas taste disgusting, but Amoebas think Stentor taste great.

[@SadafMirza]

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

[@KambizMT]

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!

[@parasiticlightningscourgev6674]

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.

[@gibbogle]

Fantastic! Great work.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

We're all part of this life experiment together.

[@SCWood]

Micah Buzan *hits blunt*

[@seanjtobin]

Speak for yourself

[@vitalygoji]

Darving is no shit. Isn't he?

[@brain.eating.amoeba]

Stentor: Oh hi
Amoeba: H U N G R Y

[@kcliwanag9558]

Eat and be eaten at the microscopic level. Excellent wonderful video! Thanks for sharing!

[@Cambria399]

Truly amazing sequence. Cheers for that! I think Steve McQueen would know how to deal to that blob!

[@Davsan1]

2:27 sssh only dreams now

[@TonioBZH]

Amoeba : *eats Stentor*
Stentor : Helicopter Helicopter !

[@stuarthedley5576]

Wonderful, wonderful vid. Thanks!

[@Regtic]

stentor getting fucking rekt m8.

[@corvo6724]

I loled.

[@plasmabolts4077]

The amoeba will eat anything it can get its... ‘limbs’ around

[@ardennielsen3761]

so do the Stentors use the hairs on there bulbous end to halp move as well as rip apart things around themselves?

[@PlutoniumDioxide]

Part of the stentor got away at the end. Could it survive like that, with the lower part of its body gone? Would it grow back in some way? Sorry, I don't know much about the life cycles of protists.

[@KambizMT]

You will find a couple of views and discussions here. If you don´t mind, I copy/paste what I posted, before: it would need, at least, one nucleus, or complete set of chromosomes, to survive. As larger ciliates tend to have more than one nucleus, or sets of chromosomes in one large nucleus, this stentor may have survived. Unfortunately, the nucleus of the stentor is not well visible in this video. With some stentors, it looks like pearl necklace (Stentor coeruleus) - you may google for pictures.

[@berlytan9575]

KambizMT is Stentor harmful to humans? I know Amoeba is fucking dangerous. I'm kinda scared and fascinated at the same time.

[@KambizMT]

Hi Berly, most of them, like this one, are not dangerous for humans. Relax :-)

[@jommoner]

KambizMT in terms of microbiology, and the complexities of single celled life, and complex ciliates, it makes sense to google for ‘pearl necklace’ as that will enlighten one further about the terrifying beauty of life

[@microscopeitaly]

Absolutely amazing!
arturo

[@AminalBeast]

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!

[@riccardodellorto4267]

This is how swimming in acid feels like, i guess

[@Neuromant1991]

Hi!
Can you tell me the model of the microscope that you use to make such amazing pictures?
Also, where do you take samples?

[@KambizMT]

Hi Nikita, the microscope is a Zeiss Standard 16. I take samples from different ponds, several times each year.

[@Neuromant1991]

@@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?

[@KambizMT]

@@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.

[@Marispider]

Hey, can someone tell me what those little dots in the amoeba's cytoplasm are? The ones that flow into the arms as they stretch out. Are they all one kind of structure or just a bunch of different organelles that just go with the flow?

[@KambizMT]

Hi, it´s leucine, and protein cristals, starch grains, oil drops. More such things are listed in publications.

[@Marispider]

@@KambizMT Ah, thank you!

[@reaper-mf]

Poor stentor, he was a nice guy

[@KevinEontrainer381]

Then the Stentor went home to tell all his families and friends what ordeal he had been through... After regrowing his body back of course...

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

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.

[@LostBeetle]

I recently saw a stentor get flattened by the cover glass, enough to rupture the cell membrane, squashed it like a pancake. I added more water, and after a little bit it was acting just fine like nothing happened. I put that stentor back in the micro habitat. They are as tough as can be.

[@alphaamoeba]

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

[@macaion897]

The eaten one seems to be survived like a lizard do so by cutting its tail.

[@coldgarden_]

Great video

[@64dartgt273]

What type/model camera and scope were used? Very nice!

[@KambizMT]

Happy you like it! It´s a Zeiss Standard 16, camera Sory SLT A65

[@minema7953]

Amoeba be like:
hahaha I am gonna catch you and dissolve you stentor! You cant live- nevermind

[@tracywilliams2023]

Stentors are so cool to look at. I love their rotating cilia...just really cool! They're no match for ameobas, though.

[@rhwinner]

I cannot condone this type of senseless violence.

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

*HOORAY-HOORAY!!* IT GOT AWAY!!*
(Kind of touch-and-go there for awhile!!)

[@beekeeperrotterdam7511]

beautiful movie. what equipment/illumination did you use?

[@KambizMT]

Thank you! It´s a Zeiss Standard 16 microscope, no special illumination. But I prefer not to close the condensor, too much, which reduces the contrast.

[@garthhunt7238]

Great to watch!! When does the video game come out?

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

They both got what they wanted. The blob got to eat and the stentor just regenerated a new tail and fled.

[@mayaramorais9955]

Where is the link park music and the phrase "RIP Stentor" 2020 - 2020 at the end ?

[@doncarleno2623]

It looks like it played dead for a second right before it got away

[@ACABSTUDIOS]

It was at this point the Stentor realized, it Fucked Up.

[@andresinchausti3841]

I was wondering if there would be any page or program that is similar to google maps but instead of zooming in the planet earth zoom in our body to reach this scale or why not, also atomic, someone knows something similar?
regards

[@gicady]

and i thought the stentor was going to eat the amoeba, but damn !

[@Mexatul]

I missed linkin park themes in this fight

[@VictorFursov]

Very interesting situation. Thank you for Video!

[@adaylateacoinshort]

The bugger finally made it. Nice video.

[@inactiveaccount5455]

amoeba: i’m sorry i’m very hungry
stentor: HELP

[@rudraprasadroyrpr]

That is some serious escape video

[@beatrizm8613]

wow!! Very exciting video, thanks for sharing :D

[@FingerinUrDaughter]

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.

[@MichaelS-vy1ku]

anyone here from that disintegrating cell video a few weeks ago?

[@AtlasReburdened]

It took months, but it got me.

[@fakelake7776]

Stentor is like a living electro saw, nature never fails to surprise!..

[@veng3r663]

So, is there any videos of protozoa eating Amoebas instead..?

[@GROMALOCARIS]

Stentor is my favorite Microbe

[@24_hanif5]

TOP 10 MOST THRILLING ANIME BATTLES

[@chulavista5239]

A successful amoeba always puts its best foot forward.