Fan art of microbe stage

[Omicron (He who abuses the search function)]

@Solitarian

Presumably the eukaryote is much larger than the bacteria it eats, so there could potentially be many cells being consumed simultaneously.

From what I’ve seen in microscope recordings, a bacterium would be around the size of the mitochondrion, (which makes sense, if the endosymbiosis theory would be correct) and usually there’d be around 1 per time anyway, the world is pretty sparsely populated.