So cool!!! The Art of Not Being Seen

[matts1w]

Ok- maybe I am sorta dorky, but I think this is very, very cool. Sorry if this has already been posted elsewhere.

[video]http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10397[/video]

 

[~ dry]

Good link, thanks.

I've seem some cuttlefish antics (off Manly Beach, near Sydney) that made me wonder whether or not I was having an acid flashback . . .

-Dory

 

[annasea]

Very cool. Along the same lines...

 

[fjpatrum]

Holy moly that's beyond cool. Almost makes me want to stop eating cephalopods.

 

[fisheater]

Very interesting AND informative.

Thanks for that great link.

 

[TSandM]

Very much enjoyed the piece, especially the last couple of lines.

 

[CamG]

Greetings matts1w excellent link!
I am jealous of the camo, the gift of hiding in plane site!
From my hunting experience I have learned a few tricks but we have to use a shell with texture to fool our game.
Truly amazing the skin of the squid demonstrating the reactivity of the color coding as well as texture.

I agree with TSandM very much we really see very little of our world and to think that only what we see is all of it is a joke!
There is far more than what meets the eye!

CamG Keep Diving....Keep Training....Keep Learning!

 

[vapourinthesea]

very cool

 

[USCScubaboy]

Great videos. Thanks for sharing.

 

[DazedAndConfuzed]

i remember a doc where they had a cephalopod go into a tank with a black & white checked bottom. When it stopped and rested at the bottom, it actually produced black and white squared pattern over its body.