Mega-Amoeba: Time lapse 450x speed of a Myxamoeba (Fuligo Septica) engulfing a fist sized rock. The purpose of this behaviour is un-like microscopic amoeba that engulf items for nutrition. These mega-amoeba are forming a structure at a high point to help insure better dispersal of the spores that will be formed.
Fuligo septica is also called the scrambled egg slime mold and other less flattering common names.
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Why? Because I recently obtained fresh spores and found that microscopic portion of this original video contained a flagellate species that was not Fuligo septica. My bad!
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Edited original sounds courtesy of freesound.org: Sascha Burghard, Andrew Duke, and theredshore.
(original file was Final Draft slime mold time lapse 30p 16Mbps.mp4)
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