Hydra: Mmmm a tootsie roll.

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It's funny because Hydras and Cyclopses are also mythological creatures! :P

Hydra! Stop playing with your food!

the beast of the micro world

The way it eats that thing...It reminds me of the squid or of the famous Kraken from mythology and subsequent works of art.

How interesting.

Imagine if these things were huge...

Hydra only die in accidents. They are Biologically Immortal

Dude these things are pretty awesome!! They are like the demons from the microscopic world! I reasearched on them because I heard they would eat baby fish fry....i have 5 baby guppy fish..

Nope, they can't feel either. Feeling requires a central processing unit, which they lack. They just react to an input, similar to dead frog's muscles.

I suspect this one came from a lake in central Michigan, as did the cyclops. They're found just about anywhere, though, as I've found them in lakes and ponds from various states in the Midwest.

Wow... Spore doesn't have tentacles >:(!!!!

Part 2?

hey come on guys the guys whos the food is a water flea which is a crustacean i.e prawns,lobsters etc. the hydra is a cnidarian i.e like jellyfishes etc which contains stinging cells

Do they feel or think ? . how they die ? feel pain and death ?.

@dhaval007mca IIRC, both the hydra and the cyclops have nerves and/or a nervous system, but neither have much of a brain. They can feel but "think" is probably pushing it. If it makes you feel better, I suspect the cyclops was already injured or dead before I put it in with the hydra, and the hydra was put back in the jar of water.

@jackhorncool They are copepods, a subclass of crustaceans, basically tiny crustaceans like shrimp only structured differently. The cyclops are named because they have one primitive eye in the center of the body. If you search for "copepod cyclops" you'll get more information than you might ever want. :)