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,
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)
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.
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.
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
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 ..
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
That was so stressful!
Ive never been so invested in the fate of a single cell before...
Were you for the amoeba or the stentor?
The stentor for sure! He was just minding his own business when the amoeba mounted it (without it's consent or knowledge!)
aMOEba.
lol
illusiwind Amoebamba
LMFAO at 3:15 another stentor pokes in like "hey guys whats goi- Oh shit nevermind peace out" XD
lmao
It's already dead by then
That's funny as hell!
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY
#sigled celled organisms have lifes
He should have dialed 911 on his cell phone.
by donshkey
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
you must be crazy to call cops. They'll shoot you down and then realize how microscopic the issue was.
Arjun Sujo You mean tissue?
Best comment of the year!!! 😂😂
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.
This is scary. I'll not marry.
Jeeeez lol
This is the most beautiful thing I have evrer read😂
MassaJim how does it digest it if is so big
what the fuck
Damn..... They may not have a brain, but they are still trying to survive.
This can be said about anybody lol
@@jdelectro and almost any living being...
@Chita Cheetah they dont have even single 1 neuron, so no brains
@Chita Cheetah You can't just get corrected and say woosh.
AOC
1:20 "Oh shit Carl that's an amoeba, let's get out of here! Carl.....Carl?"
There's no chill in the microscopic world either, huh?
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,
> happily
more like scarred for life
I was expecting the stentor to pop like a balloon
Fairly certain they have no emotions
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.
@@Xezlec it looked like it had at least a part of the macronucleus which means he should have enough to recreate the whole thing!
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.
it's nucleus is gone so it ded
mlp guy stentor are multi-nucleated, so it’s probably fine
@MindMachine- Killing something for lunch can be **TOUGH**! Lions, tigers & bears find that out early-on...
Not really, Stentor is just an exceptionally resilient specimen, most other cells would 100% be killed when ripped up like the one shown here
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.
Q: So, after engulfing the stentor, what did the amoeba have for desert?
A: Paramisu!
😂
CARLOS.
I love this. Too much.
😂
no please NO!
so this is where they get their horror movie ideas.
Stentor pulls out like a true gentleman.
3:16
"Hey Joe, you wanna go watch the game at Hoo....oh sorry, bro, didn't know you had company...."
LEGIT
Aahh this is better than lions vs zebras on national geographic 😊
Where the tribal nudity tho
Well yeah cause presumably these don't feel pain.
@@Daruqe presumably
@@Daruqe well they do have reactions to negative stimuli. Does that count as pain?
That is really an incredible capture under the microscope. Nice job.
That exploding cell video has messed up my suggestions now :/
Bruh same
Same
Lmao same
Yep
Lmao yeah. That vid came out of nowhere and now I'm seeing so many microbe vids
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.
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.
Ungh Uugh An object-lesson for Mankind: *Get out* while the getting-is-good...
Wow, it literally just mitosed in order to save itself! That's so cool!
CLASSICALFAN100 sir that is a beautiful thought, may i use it in my thinking process?
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)
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.
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.
I cried as the amoeba choked and disfigured the stentor but I am very glad that it survived.
DUDE, SAME
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.
He made it! Yeah!! Well most of him anyway :D
Yay(: he will survive and Coke back for revenge
+Theocles Saturn that's sad ):
+Theocles Saturn can't it move it's nucleus to the 'head' then escape? or is the nucleus in stentor fixed in a place?
+Theocles Saturn Actually Stentor has lots of copies of its DNA and has the ability to fully regenerate!
It is more like one third of him
6:21 Stentor: "FREE AT LONG LAST!"
Amoeba: "You think you won this battle? Look behind you... Skrub"
Lol
no 5799 years
That was so cool! love phagocytosis and still can't believe that 'stentor' was still able to function after ripping itself
Pretty sure I'm one of the only people in my town who would call a microorganism "cute".
Rebellious Treecko. I do too. it's so cute I wanna die
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
Miss Skyla
Was talking about the Stentor.
Stentor is adorable.
Amoebas are terrifying killing monsters.
Rebellious Treecko you're one of those people that would find a piece of shit cute.
Amoeba - "Oh hai Stentor"
Stentor - "You are tearing me apart"
Lol
3:05 that other Stentor was like ..nope!
Sort of like a micro version of a lizard dropping its tail to flee a predator. Neat.
epic battle for life.. at first I thought that it was going to be the stentor doing the eating
amoeba are too badass to be eaten
2:35
Amoeba: "I vill break you."
That other stentor was a backstabber
Stentor: you can eat me only half
Amoeba: ¿¿¿
Morgan Freeman: And so continues the life of the amoeba. Forever lost in the microcellular world of death, fair and destruction.
You should seek a career in writing. Smiles to you.
I live how at 3:15 the stentor's just "Dude, you ok- nOPE BYEE"
What an emotional roller-coaster...
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 ..
6:20 Stentor be like "Nope, See you next time, dude"
Nice job - well done capture. Biology teachers like me thank you!
Absolutely hypnotic to watch - fantastic!
I love this comment section so much.
I can’t believe an amoeba somehow managed to eat half a stentor
I guess we can safely assume that Stentor find Amoebas taste disgusting, but Amoebas think Stentor taste great.
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
Where can I find this?
Stentor: Oh hi
Amoeba: H U N G R Y
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.
Fascinating video! Thank you! Very nice work and a great catch!
In the end, the stentor survived and the amoeba had its lunch.
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.
Fantastic! Great work.
Awesome footage, I have heard about this in school but seeing it in action was something else.
You should have been able to see it live. Or are they not doing that anymore in schools?
Wonderful, wonderful vid. Thanks!
2:27 sssh only dreams now
Eat and be eaten at the microscopic level. Excellent wonderful video! Thanks for sharing!
Poor stentor, he was a nice guy
Amoeba : *eats Stentor*
Stentor : Helicopter Helicopter !
I cannot condone this type of senseless violence.
We're all part of this life experiment together.
Micah Buzan *hits blunt*
Speak for yourself
Darving is no shit. Isn't he?
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
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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.
Truly amazing sequence. Cheers for that! I think Steve McQueen would know how to deal to that blob!
Great to watch!! When does the video game come out?
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
The amoeba will eat anything it can get its... ‘limbs’ around
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...
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.
Absolutely amazing!
arturo
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!
Very interesting situation. Thank you for Video!
Stentors are so cool to look at. I love their rotating cilia...just really cool! They're no match for ameobas, though.
stentor getting fucking rekt m8.
I loled.
Stentor is my favorite Microbe
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.
*HOORAY-HOORAY!!* IT GOT AWAY!!*
(Kind of touch-and-go there for awhile!!)
This is how swimming in acid feels like, i guess
Great video
wow!! Very exciting video, thanks for sharing :D
beautiful movie. what equipment/illumination did you use?
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.
It looks like it played dead for a second right before it got away
What type/model camera and scope were used? Very nice!
Happy you like it! It´s a Zeiss Standard 16, camera Sory SLT A65
They both got what they wanted. The blob got to eat and the stentor just regenerated a new tail and fled.
Amoeba be like:
hahaha I am gonna catch you and dissolve you stentor! You cant live- nevermind
I missed linkin park themes in this fight
so do the Stentors use the hairs on there bulbous end to halp move as well as rip apart things around themselves?
The eaten one seems to be survived like a lizard do so by cutting its tail.
The bugger finally made it. Nice video.
It was at this point the Stentor realized, it Fucked Up.
damn, is it the microscope or the magnification?
because this looks awesome!
A successful amoeba always puts its best foot forward.
Man, amoebas are kind of assholes...I mean everybody's gotta eat I guess
That is some serious escape video
amoeba: i’m sorry i’m very hungry
stentor: HELP
Hi!
Can you tell me the model of the microscope that you use to make such amazing pictures?
Also, where do you take samples?
Hi Nikita, the microscope is a Zeiss Standard 16. I take samples from different ponds, several times each year.
@@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.
anyone here from that disintegrating cell video a few weeks ago?
It took months, but it got me.
Stentor got away but not easily. It was big enough to resist the phagocytotic action of the amoeba.
Stentor is like a living electro saw, nature never fails to surprise!..
To me, they seem every bit as conscious as people, in their own one-celled way I mean.
I love this comment section.
Duuuuuuuude, same
So, is there any videos of protozoa eating Amoebas instead..?
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.
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.
KambizMT is Stentor harmful to humans? I know Amoeba is fucking dangerous. I'm kinda scared and fascinated at the same time.
Hi Berly, most of them, like this one, are not dangerous for humans. Relax :-)
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