Mould Time-lapse - The Great British Year: Episode 4 Preview - BBC
Why Biology Stack Exchange recommends it
Biology Stack Exchange users link it as a vivid, easy-to-find example of slime mould behaviour when explaining or asking about these organisms.
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What it is
A short BBC preview clip from The Great British Year showing time-lapse footage of a yellow slime mould crawling across a forest floor in search of white fungus to eat. It is narrated nature footage from the BBC's wildlife series, running just under three minutes.
What people said
Cites Remi.b · 2015-09 · Biology Stack Exchange · on “Can an organism exist as a single cell but come together as multi-cellular during certain times?”
Welcome to Biology StackExchange. Am I remembering this incorrectly? No, you're remembering it correctly. I think you're talking about slime molds. You'll find more information on the wiki page [LINK] Is this the video [this video] you saw? These images are pretty cool. Is this even possible? Yes (given that it exists). There is no way to correctly answer this question as it really is an open-ended question. But here are a few words that may push you writing further posts. Just a few words on the evolution of altruism The main interest behind this life-cycle is that not all individuals reproduce. Some individuals form the stalk while others go through meiosis (see below on the life-cycle). [LINK]
Cites theforestecologist · 2019-12 · Biology Stack Exchange · on “What are the white eggs growing from a black stem on the Napa cabbage plant?”
I'm no expert in slime molds [LINK] , but your specimens do in fact look a lot like the sporangia [LINK] , or spore-producing reproductive structures (i.e., fruiting bodies [LINK] ), of a Mycetozoan [LINK] slime mold in the class Myxogastria [LINK] . Physarum [LINK] and Comatricha [LINK] are possible candidate genera based on structure of their sporangia that I can find easily online. See below for an example image: [LINK] Sporangia of Physarum pusillum . Source: Wikimedia [LINK] You can see many photos of the white sporangia of Physarum pusillum here [LINK] and a close-up of the white sporangium of Physarum pseudocolumellatum here [LINK] I don't think I can provide a more specific answer gi
Cites giorgio79 · 2020-01 · Biology Stack Exchange · on “Could Physarum polycephalum consume regular toenail fungus?”
I just watched this video [this video] on physarum polycephalum, aka the "blob" [LINK] and noticed how it consumes white fungus. Could it do the same maybe with human toenail fungus? [LINK]