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• Footage courtesy: Khoa Le (@khoale7139) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlXd92ioBVg
• Footage courtesy: Walter Jahn (@drjahn41) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZuFzbNIVUQ

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00:00Invisible rings snap shut around swimming prey in a fraction of a millisecond.
00:04The aquatic fungus Zophagus insidians builds microscopic adhesive collars
00:10that act as hair-trigger hunting snares.
00:13When a microscopic rotifer brushes the ring,
00:16the inner cell wall swells instantly and glues the victim fast.
00:21Fungal threads pierce the trapped animal and digest it alive from the inside out
00:26so that invisible rings snap shut around swimming prey.
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