Stentor Eats Arcella

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8 жыл бұрын

I was about to end my session with the microscope when I saw this Stentor swallow a small Amoeba and then come close to an Arcella Amoeba. My focus wasn't great and my phase alignment was a bit off, but I thought the action was worth recording.
Equipment:
Microscope #1: Nikon Labophot microscope with a Nikon Phase Contrast condenser. Objectives include an Omax 4X, Nikon phase contrast objectives (10X and CFN Plan 20X); a Zeiss Neofluar 40X Ph2 (works with the Ph3 stop on the Nikon condenser); a Zeiss Neofluar 100X Ph3 oil (works with the Ph4 stop on the Nikon condenser); and a Leitz 50X oil immersion. I also have a Nikon E plan 10X and a Nikon E plan 20X. If you see darkfield at 40X, I’m using the Omax 40X objective.
Illumination is by a homemade LED setup using a 3- watt Cree neutral white LED.
Microscope #2: Omax M837TL-A191 microscope with dry darkfield condenser. Omax objectives include a 4X, 10X, plan 20X, 40X, a plan 60X, and a 100X oil immersion.
Camera: Amscope MU300
Video Editing Software: PowerDirector 12

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@user-jp3bu6cx9q 6 жыл бұрын

0:56 holy shit that was freaking fast! At first I thought it cut off to the next clip or something

@oson3061 7 жыл бұрын

it contracts faster than the speed of light!

@BillPorter1456 4 жыл бұрын

Not quite that fast.

@jotarokujo_starplatinum5492 3 жыл бұрын

@@BillPorter1456 p r o v e I t

@BillPorter1456 3 жыл бұрын

@@jotarokujo_starplatinum5492 Prove what?

@BillPorter1456 3 жыл бұрын

@@jotarokujo_starplatinum5492 If you mean prove it's not faster than the speed of light, that's easy. Maximum speed of contraction of Vorticella, known to be faster than Stentor, is less than 10 cm per second. In one second, light travels about 186,000 miles. So 4 inches versus 186,000 miles.

@T11235 2 жыл бұрын

I think it was a joke

@daddy3484 3 жыл бұрын

I like how arcella shamelessly goes back into stentors mouth after he failed. True team player.

@AtomiskZabaleta 6 жыл бұрын

AWESOME THAT RETRACTION WAS LIKE LIGHTSPEED COMPARED TO IT'S EXTENSION

@GoatMan64 4 жыл бұрын

While I was watching this video, I was looking at my microscope and suddenly I found a stentor that was sitting on a piece of algae and it looked so cool

@gregsun974 6 жыл бұрын

Anyone else glad to on be on the massive scale in terms of organism size ?

@TragoudistrosMPH 6 жыл бұрын

Screencapped and Emailed to my lawyer *links random great white shark or anaconda devouring a human video* :p

@ehssannajmolhoda2065 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome video and great editing! Thanks for sharing. Please do more!

@BillPorter1456 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

@edobish 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! They were my favorite thing to look at during pond water microscopy- I wanted to show my kids and this was perfect!

@BillPorter1456 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@Sean-kg7vh 6 жыл бұрын

Yes that contraction was a great example of an organism's stimuli.

@yes12337 2 жыл бұрын

What a badass stentor 👍

@imlatinoguy 5 жыл бұрын

What if cells are actually self replicating nano bots and we just don't know it.

@BillPorter1456 5 жыл бұрын

Seems like that would show up pretty clearly in any of these microscope videos.

@mechacosi1856 2 жыл бұрын

Stentor is an living vacuum cleaner

@SuperRedshark1 6 жыл бұрын

Groove on, Bill Porter. That was some cool learning.

@BillPorter1456 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@aquacelot 6 жыл бұрын

man its so fascinating how life even works. like how the hell do we know and how to move and do stuff and all the stuff of live?!

@Xezlec 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you might enjoy reading some biology books!

@vithalbhaipatel1013 2 жыл бұрын

Well show. Good information.

@BillPorter1456 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

@furrygohanztv491 6 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised they would let something this violet and gruesome on KZfaq murder😂

@TragoudistrosMPH 6 жыл бұрын

Nice narration, it helps a lot.

@BillPorter1456 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Cambria399 6 жыл бұрын

Can you suggest a way to culture stentor? I have made hay infusions, collected pond and stream water for many years now but not found any. What do they like most of all? yeast and bacteria maybe? great footage btw/ I subscribed!

@BillPorter1456 6 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, but I don't know how to culture Stentors. They are common in a small pond near our condo so I never thought about culturing them. Thanks for the kind words and for subscribing!

@MrJonyish 4 жыл бұрын

Bro my day is so slow I just watched a single celled organism eat an ameba

@bunbunnbunnybun 6 жыл бұрын

Stenntor teleported

@yalkn2073 6 жыл бұрын

Wbannie a Reported it to valve. It will hopefully get VACed

@sassy_sasarai4090 3 жыл бұрын

The weird music enhances this content.

@BillPorter1456 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@andresinchausti3841 6 жыл бұрын

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

@microuruguay 8 жыл бұрын

Very interesting moment

@BillPorter1456 8 жыл бұрын

+microuruguay Thanks, Carlos! :>) Some times I think to myself that all we have are "moments." Hopefully, some are interesting.

@SLAUGHTEREDEYES 8 жыл бұрын

Great catch Bill !!

@BillPorter1456 8 жыл бұрын

+SLAUGHTEREDEYES Thanks, SLAUGHTEREDEYES. Glad you like it.

@Xezlec 5 жыл бұрын

It's like when it first touched him, he was afraid of it because it was a bigger wiggly thing than he was expecting, but then on the second touch he realized it was yummy anyway.

@snowflvke 4 жыл бұрын

"Sometimes something larger enters their mouth" C;

@SuyatiParamedikVeteriner76 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video

@BillPorter1456 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@bigfootwithinternetaccess2925 6 жыл бұрын

thats kinda satisfying to watch

@000FireRainHavoc000 6 жыл бұрын

Daaah!? Okay who just fed me a soft round..........thhhhinnnng?

@Gustavo-ye1ko 4 жыл бұрын

*Brutal meme here*

@laviniaplonka Жыл бұрын

Might I have permission to share this video with my class?

@BillPorter1456 Жыл бұрын

Sure, no problem. Thanks for watching.

@artemkras 6 жыл бұрын

Amoeba, meet Joe Black

@russelreal7709 5 ай бұрын

it Look like the great majah

@kingofdilophosaurus5562 2 жыл бұрын

this is bionix

@ronch550 6 жыл бұрын

Are these tiny microbes conscious?

@BillPorter1456 6 жыл бұрын

I don't think they are conscious in the way human beings are conscious. Keep in mind that they are only a single cell whereas our brains have billions of cells.

@ronch550 6 жыл бұрын

Bill Porter yeah I suppose, but judging by the way they move and catch prey it's like they're actually conscious. Who knows.. what if consciousness doesn't necessitate a complex brain.

@BillPorter1456 6 жыл бұрын

Some believe that consciousness, at least some level of consciousness resides in all beings, even inanimate objects. I think for consciousness of the sort exhibited by human beings, one would need a complex system, though not necessarily a biological system. But yes, they move and act in ways that are often very efficient and adaptive.

@yeahnothanks123 6 жыл бұрын

Is that plankton or what...?

@BillPorter1456 6 жыл бұрын

Yep, "plankton" would cover it.

@Untrustedlife 5 жыл бұрын

@@BillPorter1456 more specifically its a species of single celled cilliate.

@kellydrodgers8957 5 жыл бұрын

Stentor-1 Arcella-0. It's a good day for the Stentor when it can eat an Amoeba. :)

@rsrs3630 6 жыл бұрын

Damn microbiology, you scary.

@AilahsCreation 5 ай бұрын

arcella amoeba got suck and died by deadly vicious stentor predator

@Mark-ht1ed 6 жыл бұрын

dude nuts

@charlieferme5274 4 жыл бұрын

All fun and games untill one eats a human embryo

@BillPorter1456 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think this could happen. Stentors don't spend much time inside human bodies. And they are just not large enough to eat an embryo. I'm guessing you were joking? Hope so.