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Hi Sasha
I have taken your article to sub-edit - I knew I would learn something new

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You call them "Puzzle-solving Organisms" - great title! I am sure I have seen lots of the orange type when we're out walking. Now I can impress Andy by telling him what it is!

I am at a loss to categorise them though, are they plant or animal? I did do a search but I'm no wiser. Our entry on Amoebas lists them in plants. Yet "Plants, fungi and the underground internet", which talks of slime mould, is listed under Plants and Plants/Trees.



GB

Thanks GB You're a star doing all this subbing - much appreciated

I have probably seen a slime mould, too, but didn't know what it was at the time - I definitely will be keeping a lookout for more this autumn

That is a good question about 'animal, vegetable or mineral'... I think I would go with putting them in 'Animals' with amoebas as they are more than just fungi

Happy to help

You know, after I posted that I went and read the PR thread, and it had been discussed. Calling them animal because of their locomotion amused Dmitri's tutor, they're supposed to be plants. But I don't see why they can't be both. After all, when I watch carnivorous plants devour flies, beetles, etc, I don't think "pretty flower...", I regard them as animals in plant form.

We could always store them in both.

I've done the subbing - if you'd like to read it through and ok I will return it to the Eds

I'll do the classifying next time I'm logged in as Editor

Excellent - thank you

I see I had the Eds’ hat on 4 days ago by mistake, but never mind

Not the first time I've done that and it probably won't be the last



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