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Teach science in a primary school in Hangzhou
Teacher Chu told reporters,
Now there are students who like to raise one
Quite a fresh pet - slime molds.
Many netizens said,
A few days ago, my baby mentioned slime molds,
I want to keep it as a pet.
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Open social platforms,
This "very niche and very characterful pet"
The discussion is not small.
What exactly is slime mold?
According to popular science bloggers, slime molds are neither fungi nor bacteria, but a kind of eukaryotic domain-amoeba group-slime bacteria, which are non-toxic and harmless.
It has two phases throughout its life: the vegetative phase and the reproductive phase.
The slime molds in the vegetative stage are called protoplasm masses, which are a bit like a network of mucus and grow in dark and damp places, such as the back of fallen wood, the crevices of floor tiles, and the humus layer. They are constantly splitting into branches and crawling around, devouring food particles to obtain nutrients, so they crawl around looking for something to eat, much like animals.
When it reaches the breeding stage, the slime mold will crawl to a slightly dry, sunny area, stop eating, and the whole protoplasm mass will collectively metamorphose, growing fruiting bodies like mushrooms or clumps of powder to disperse spores.
Slime molds move, multiply quickly in the environment, and can be dyed with pigments, showing a unique patterned shape.
Young people started keeping slime molds as pets
On the shopping platform,
There are a lot of products that pop up by searching for "slime mold",
There are all of them
Hundreds or even thousands of people buy.
Some sellers said that at first, most of the buyers who bought slime molds were college students and young people in their twenties and thirties, and later the number of elementary school students who came to buy slime molds increased. "Now everyone's life is relatively stable, and many children and young people like these novel gadgets."
How to raise slime molds?
A buyer said: "It's not difficult to get started, when I bought the material package, the merchant came with a more detailed feeding tutorial, it is not a creature that particularly likes light, pay attention to maintaining temperature and humidity when feeding, and replace the pad paper in time, the food is generally fed with crushed oatmeal, about 3 to 5 times a day, and some other details that you don't understand, you can quickly understand the video by yourself." ”
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This is Ms. Chu's fifth year as a science teacher, and she thinks that she is usually quite "trendy", and she has never heard of this novel little "pet" before, but slime molds immediately aroused her interest.
"I feel that it has a strong reproductive ability, so it can be introduced as an extension activity for children, and children in the sixth grade of primary school will learn about microorganisms." After class ended yesterday evening, she immediately began to look up information about slime molds.
"At the moment, this slime fungus is quite intelligent and will multiply quickly in the environment it likes, so the choice of culture device should be quite important, otherwise it will crawl out and reproduce in patches. If it is really non-toxic and harmless, you can give children a science popularization in science class. Teacher Chu said.
Have you ever heard of this "pet"?
In addition to silkworm babies, know,
What "alternative pets" did you have in your childhood?
Welcome to share in the comment area~
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Source: Newsroom Comprehensive Qianjiang Evening News, Shengxuebao, Jiupai News, netizen comments, etc
Editor: Lady W