Title
Preview
Description
Community living offers great benefits. One drawback is overcrowding, which leads to unneighborly behavior. Confusing friend with food, predators appear within the playfully swimming bacterial cooperatives.
The "Vampire-berry" (Vampirococcus) attaches to and eats away the larger prey cells. Other microcosmic predators like Bdellovibrio slip just inside the surface of an unsuspecting neighbor, close the membrane and start digesting. A common predator lives and feeds by itself until resources diminish. When nearly overcome by crowding, it moves inside its intended victim and starts to divide.
It is speculated, in one of nature's luscious ironies, that the outcome of invasion, followed by truce, produces a grand blossoming in the history of life.
Date Created
1997
Holding Institution
University of Montana--Missoula. Environmental Studies Program
Rights Statement
Rights Holder
© 1997 Stiftung Drittes Millennium
Item Type
Exhibit
Digital File Format
image/jpeg
Media Type
Text; Image
Digital Image Number
23_wtt_file02_20-39.jpg
Recommended Citation
Liebes, Sid; Mittelstadt, Laurie; Waugh, Barbara; and Brynes, Lois, "Panel 23: Horde Havoc" (1997). A Walk Through Time - From Stardust To Us. 23.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/awalkthroughtime/23