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alex—stein:

Kings of Camouflage - PBS Nova (by Civil Digital)

So, there’s an entire NOVA episode on cuttlefish I felt you guys would enjoy!

(Reblogged from awrrex-stein)
montereybayaquarium: Here’s something to look for on your next visit: pharaoh cuttlefish eggs! We always like it when animals reproduce on exhibit, as it’s a sign that we’ve created a healthy environment. Hope you’re having a great weekend! Learn more about cuttlefish. View high resolution

montereybayaquarium:

Here’s something to look for on your next visit:

pharaoh cuttlefish eggs! We always like it when animals reproduce on exhibit, as it’s a sign that we’ve created a healthy environment. Hope you’re having a great weekend!

Learn more about cuttlefish.

(Reblogged from montereybayaquarium)

astronomy-to-zoology:

Reaper Cuttlefish (Sepia mestus)

….is a species of cuttlefish endemic to the warm southwestern Pacific ocean, they are more commonly found off of the reefs if Australia. Like several other cuttlefish species the reaper cuttlefish is sexually dimorphic as females grow significantly larger than their male counterparts. Like most cuttlefish species they are predators and will feed on arthropods, other mollusks and small invertebrates that are caught with two tentacles that are shot out at the prey item.

Phylogeny

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(Reblogged from astronomy-to-zoology)
Mating Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) off the coast of Holland. (Photographer: Luc Rooman, Belgium) (via: OurAmazingPlanet) View high resolution

Mating Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) off the coast of Holland.

(Photographer: Luc Rooman, Belgium)

(via: OurAmazingPlanet)

NE Aquarium:  Jaw-Dropping Cuttlefish Video

Ask some serious fish nerds what their favorite animal is and there is a good chance that they will mention cuttlefish, which are both freaky and very cool. Take a minute to watch this stunning slow-motion video (with their real-time counterpart clips) of the cuttlefish feeding and changing color and you’ll know what we’re talking about.

Ask some serious fish nerds what their favorite animal is and there is a good chance that they will mention cuttlefish, which are both freaky and very cool. Take a minute to watch this stunning slow-motion video (with their real-time counterpart clips) of the cuttlefish feeding and changing color and you’ll know what we’re talking about.

This super-crisp, slow-motion video was a collaboration between New England Aquarium, an underwater photographer, a physicist and a local tech company. At 500 frames per second, the footage appears about 17 times slower than it occurs to the naked eye. The result: a spectacular new window on cuttlefish in action. Did you see how this cunning cephalopod captured its food with two shotgun-like tentacles? Once it snagged the fish, it pulled it into the grasp of eight waiting suction-cupped arms. Learn more about this stunning video.

Cuttlefish are related to squid and octopus. When they feel threatened, they can change color and skin pattern in just a few seconds. The lighting-fast color change is quite subtle in the slow-motion video…

(read more: New England Aquarium)

pixbyrichard:  broadclub cuttlefish  by richard morden http://www.mordenart.com/

pixbyrichard:  broadclub cuttlefish  by richard morden

http://www.mordenart.com/

(Reblogged from pixbyrichard)
It’s so hard to meet a man in the city, when you’re a cuttlefish.

It’s so hard to meet a man in the city, when you’re a cuttlefish.

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(Reblogged from mad-as-a-marine-biologist)
ichthyologist: Hooded Cuttlefish (Sepia prashadi) Despite being able to change their colour to match their surroundings, cuttlefish are colourblind. It seems that light intensity, not colour, is what the cephalopods mimic. divemecressi on Flickr View high resolution

ichthyologist:

Hooded Cuttlefish (Sepia prashadi)

Despite being able to change their colour to match their surroundings, cuttlefish are colourblind. It seems that light intensity, not colour, is what the cephalopods mimic.

divemecressi on Flickr

(Reblogged from ichthyologist)

Dorsal and ventral views ofAustralian Giant Cuttlefish, Sepia apama

lithographic proofs from Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, John James Wild

(via: Museum Victoria)

another-animal-blog: Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) get in a squabble over territory and access to females, off the coast of Whyalla, South Australia. (photo by AntheaIbell) View high resolution

another-animal-blog: Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) get in a squabble over territory and access to females, off the coast of Whyalla, South Australia.

(photo by AntheaIbell)

(Source: thingswithantlers)

(Reblogged from tiersebessenheit)
ichthyologist: Leaf me alone   (photo dachalan on Flickr) View high resolution

ichthyologist: Leaf me alone   (photo dachalan on Flickr)

(Reblogged from ichthyologist)
Juvenile Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi), Secret Bay, Anilao, Philippines (photo: Suzan Meldonian)                (via: National Geo) View high resolution

Juvenile Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi), Secret Bay, Anilao, Philippines

(photo: Suzan Meldonian)                (via: National Geo)

Cuttlefish Turn Left to Avoid Predators by Stephanie Pappas Smelling the scents of predators may help the cuttlefish brain prepare for quick escapes before it even hatches, new research finds. The study helps explain why these squidlike cephalopods (and perhaps other animals) show differences between the two sides of their brains and bodies — known as lateralization. Lateralization is the reason most humans favor either their right or left hands, and many living organisms show some signs of lateralization. Clever, color-changing cuttlefish preferentially turn left when confronted with danger, a side preference that is linked to differences in visual processing on either side of the cuttlefish brain. Researchers at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie in France wanted to find out how this lateralization develops, and whether genes or environment play the biggest role… (read more: Live Science)                  (image: Sepia latimanus by Nick Hobgood) View high resolution

Cuttlefish Turn Left to Avoid Predators

by Stephanie Pappas

Smelling the scents of predators may help the cuttlefish brain prepare for quick escapes before it even hatches, new research finds.

The study helps explain why these squidlike cephalopods (and perhaps other animals) show differences between the two sides of their brains and bodies — known as lateralization. Lateralization is the reason most humans favor either their right or left hands, and many living organisms show some signs of lateralization.

Clever, color-changing cuttlefish preferentially turn left when confronted with danger, a side preference that is linked to differences in visual processing on either side of the cuttlefish brain. Researchers at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie in France wanted to find out how this lateralization develops, and whether genes or environment play the biggest role…

(read more: Live Science)                  (image: Sepia latimanus by Nick Hobgood)

Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi)

A small male tries to keep another male from mating with a larger female. A bizarre love triangle. Social conventions are thrown asunder. Hilarity ensues.

(the videographer understandably misinterprets what is happening.)

(video: Robert Suntay)

factstofigures: Cephalopods Artist: Peter Stebbing Russell, F. S. and Yonge, M. (1975). The Seas: An introduction to the study of life in the sea. New York: Frederick Warne & Co Inc. View high resolution

factstofigures: Cephalopods

Artist: Peter Stebbing

Russell, F. S. and Yonge, M. (1975). The Seas: An introduction to the study of life in the sea. New York: Frederick Warne & Co Inc.

(Reblogged from scientificillustration)