The organism appears to be a small caterpillar esque invertebrate that can shed, and looks similar to a c elegan as well. It is pale in color, a shade that is a grayish yellow. Its color is uniform and does not change across its entire body. The organism has no legs or hair, and is able to move around by scrunching up its body and then extending it. Its body is sectioned off into 8 difference pieces, with the first 7 at roughly the same size while the last section tapers off and is smaller than the rest. The smaller end has its end black as well. It is unable to adhere to its surfaces very well, and will quickly fall off whatever surface its on if the surface is tilted past 80 degrees. It has no visible facial features to the naked eye.
It is a little over an inch in length. Its back end (the side without the small black tip) has two small black dots that look similar to eyes, but is more or less likely to just be fecal matter. Its width is about 2 to 3 millimeters, with a cylindrical/tubular body. It may be more accurate to call it the diameter of its body, rather than its width. Its mass is most likely around a gram, if not less and it exhibits radial symmetry.
The organism has the ability to wriggle its body side to side, and can curl either ends of its body to go up or down. It’s very active and is constantly moving, but does stop to rest every once in a while. Its overall behavior is difficult to patternize, as it seems that it just moves in one direction or another randomly. Although it demonstrated its ability to move across the container, it seems to have an affinity to simply move in circles around the circumference of the circular container.
After violently shaking the container a few times, the organism still demonstrated the ability to move around and behave normally. This most likely indicates that its central nervous system is not that complex and is well protected as well. Otherwise, the organism would have demonstrated no ability to move around after being violently shook. The organism also scrunches up after being violently shaken, and contracts its body. The longer the shake the longer the organism stays in shock until it demonstrates the ability to move around again. After about 5 seconds of violent shaking, the organism was in shock for about 4 minutes before being able to regain its ability to move around again. The test was not redone for a longer time in fear that the organism may actually die if the shaking duration lasts longer.
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