Mud Puddle Explosion

[Don Schaeffer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAKWc_akBwU
On my inspection tour of the mudpuddle, I was greeted this morning by a rush of swarming ciliates the likes of which I'd never seen. There were also small but growing amoebas and the usual background crowd of infinitesimal bacteria and flagellates.