One of my favorite passages of literary aerobics ever is Wikipedia’s description of amoeba movement:

“the amoeba moves by extending a pseudopod (a process known as “ballooning”), attaching it to the substrate and filling it with cytosol and releasing its rear portion from attachment to the substrate which results in the organism being propelled forward.”

Translation:

blooop Image credit: Rosemary Wills

If you wondered what life would be like without bones, wonder no more. Amoebas have it down. They are the night of the living Jello, the artists of inflation, the graceful globs of the microscopic world.

*ballerina music* Image credit: Dr. Tsukii Yuuji via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5) (tutu added by RW)

They dine Kirby-style, embracing their food in a warm squishy bear hug of death.

And they’re lots of fun to crochet, because you can’t mess up something that doesn’t have a shape.

beware of amoeba hugs.