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An amoeba hunting for food I

Species name: Amoeba (Vannella)

AL-Museum AL-Museum

Here a large amoeba is actively hunting and catching food in various ways. When a food particle becomes caught on the tip of the pseudopodium, the pseudopodium carries the food to the center of its body, by becoming shorter and broader until the food is engulfed.

AL-Museum

(2016.04.28)

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