Check this out, people! In a paper published in Nature, a species of amoebic slime mold (Dictyostelium discoideum) have been shown to perform activities resembling primitive agriculture, including refraining from consuming all of their prey bacteria when their prey numbers dwindle, and carrying the bacteria with them as they aggregate to migrate to a new habitat. Neat!
Brock, D.A., T.E. Douglas, D.C. Queller, and J.E. Strassmann. (2011). Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba. Nature. 469: 393-396.
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