Nowadays, having pets has gradually become an important part of young people's lives, following the "carton dog", "pet stone" and "mango pit", many people have raised slime molds. Many netizens posted their pet slime molds on social platforms, some shared feeding videos and feeding diaries, and some showed off their beautiful slime molds.
Pet slime mold. Source: Weibo blogger @曳尾菌
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Question: What is slime mold? How do you keep it as a pet?
AI answers:
Slime mold is neither a fungus nor a bacterium, and belongs to the class Slime Mold, the protist kingdom, which is a type of eukaryotic organism that has been on Earth for about a billion years. Slime molds are widely distributed, and there are more than 1,000 species of slime molds known at present, which are one of the decomposers in the ecosystem, mainly divided into protoplast slime molds and cellular slime molds.
There are two stages in the life of slime molds: the vegetative stage and the reproduction stage. The slime mold usually hides in a dark and damp place, and only in the reproduction stage will it appear in a bright and slightly dry place, and it will be discovered, and the slime mold in the reproduction stage is about to become a fruiting body, that is, the mother is about to die, and becomes a lot of spores, which is mistaken for "suicide", in fact, this is just the instinctive behavior of the slime mold after entering the reproduction stage.
The slime mold spends most of its life like a sticky mass of snot, and when it forms a fruiting body, it transforms into brilliant colors, beautiful postures, and changeable shapes. It is precisely because of this characteristic that some young people are interested in breeding.
Since slime molds crawl around to feed, they can connect all the food in the environment in the shortest possible way, and scientists have used this feature of slime molds to find exits to the maze and design a rail network. In 2019, the Paris Zoo also exhibited slime molds as special animals, which attracted social attention and was hailed as the safest experimental organism.
If you really want to raise slime molds, you should know some optional knowledge about slime molds in advance:
1. In terms of choosing slime molds, if you do not have sufficient knowledge base, it is not recommended to collect them by yourself, so as not to damage the environment or affect your health.
2. Pay attention to cleaning up to avoid polluting the environment after the escaped slime molds successfully survive.
3. Slime molds are relatively easy to raise. Most slime molds are saprophytes, and the food they eat is not very picky, and they are generally fed crushed oatmeal.
4. Feed in a timely and regular manner, if you don't give slime molds enough food, they may crawl out of the medium and occupy the table or windowsill at home.
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