Ombudsman means citizen representative. They investigate reported complaints, report findings and help achieve resolutions. They can help one person resolve a problem, address issues that affect several residents or work to change a systemic problem.mbudsman means citizen representative. They investigate reported complaints, report findings and help achieve resolutions. They can help one person resolve a problem, address issues that affect several residents or work to change a systemic problem.
But when food and water are scarce, the mass separates into smaller blobs. The Plasmodium forms stalks topped by sphere-like fruiting bodies that contain spores that are carried by the rain or wind to new locations. Cellular slime molds also produce spores, but these germinate into amoeba-like cells. The cells happily go their individual ways, as long as food and water are available.
The cells join up to form a mass that looks and acts like a slug to take them to a more favorable location. Cells in cellular slime molds retain their individual cell walls when they form a mass, so the visible slug is actually a collection of hundreds of thousands of individual cells joined together. Slime molds eat decaying vegetation, bacteria, fungi, and even other slime molds.