Here is a video of a fairly colorful tardigrade circumventing his little world of detritus looking for his next meal. Doesn't look like he found any and obviously has no concept that he may have traveled that path before.
The little fellow went for a nap (died?) after the video was taken which allowed me to take a number of stationary photos. This enabled me to stack a number of photos to get the whole image into focus.
I also managed a photo of his buccal apparatus which could help in IDing this specimen. So far we've only identified him to genus level; Genus Ramazzottius.
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