Microvultures
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'This video plays out more like a microscopic thriller, with two ciliates scavenging inside the body of a dead organism. Like vultures, ciliates detect dying animals on which to feed. In this case the “victim” is the larvae of a codopod'
By Wim van Egmond: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/micropol...
Note: guess which part of the body they escape through at the end.
Source: http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/gallerie...
By Wim van Egmond: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/micropol...
Note: guess which part of the body they escape through at the end.
Source: http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/gallerie...