Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their prey. By Richard Kemeny In May 2023, Matteo Santon was filming cuttlefish in ...
A broadclub cuttlefish, the second largest cuttlefish species, blends into the ocean floor. Nick Hobgood via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Cuttlefish are known deceivers. The sea creatures can ...
Matteo Santon, a marine visual ecologist at Bristol University in England, never really expected to see the predators’ approach to hunting from the perspective of the prey —specifically to see what it ...
While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in the last moments of approach, researchers at the University of Bristol have found. Lead author Dr. Matteo ...
Crafty cuttlefish employ several different camouflaging displays while hunting their prey, according to a new paper published in the journal Ecology, including mimicking benign ocean objects like a ...
A small team of marine biologists at the University of Bristol, in the U.K., working with a colleague from the Regional Research and Innovation Agency of West Papua, Indonesia, has found that wild ...