#paramecium

New version of my lazy paramecium brooches are available at ranbu in Japan! Comes in a plastic petri dish.

If you want to purchase them, please contact the shop (they ship overseas).

大阪のranbuさんには、ゆる〜い雰囲気のゾウリムシブローチ(改良版)も置いて頂いてます！プラスティックシャーレ入り。

通販ご希望の方はお問合せください。

Paramecium bursaria

they didn’t even split I was late to English for nothing

*cries in autism*

anyways here’s a screenshot from the video because it’s too long to load into this post unfortunately

This is a Paramecium

It's a single-celled organism known as a Cilliate, due to the cillia covering its membrane by which it moves

They are predatory organisms, feeding on other protists and bacteria. They don't engulf their prey like an amoeba or anything; they just have a mouth (called a cytostome) that leads into a food vacuole, which is basically a stomach

This stomach fills with acid and enzymes just like an animal stomach. The only real distinction being that when the stomach on the mouth is full it closes off and starts floating about their cytoplasm, with a new food vacuole growing at the mouth

But what happens when the food in the stomach is digested? Well they just take a poop out of their anus