103K views · 445 shares | Slime mold—beautiful, gross or simply...

An incredible time lapse of slime mold plasmodium pulsing or ‘breathing’ driven by cytoplasmic streaming. Slime molds run on a ‘network intelligence’ to coordinate their senses across the plasmodium. How cool! Thanks, Fascinated by Fungi for sharing this video! | Paul Stamets

1M views · 5.5K reactions | Mould Time-lapse - A yellow slime mould moves across the forest floor, searching for its white fungus food source. Credits: BBC | Microbe Notes | Facebook

Where the slime mold creeps….Acellular slime molds or #myxogastria are not fungi, but instead single celled organisms more closely related to other ameoboid protist-like organisms. They actively engulf their food (phagocytosis) and do not contain chitin, but they do reproduce by spore. They are adaptable grazers capable of navigating the forest floor, sensitive to light, gravity, humidity, directionality of food, and more. The active moving part of the life cycle is called plasmodium, which beha

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