The cuttlefish is often called the chameleon of the sea, but where the land-based version can only change its color, the sepia-squirting, tentacled one can change its skin texture as well as its tint ...

Every year off the South Australian coast, giant Australian cuttlefish come together in huge numbers to breed. They put on a technicolour display of blue, purple, green, red and gold, changing hues as ...

Male cuttlefish do not bluff. When their body language shows they are agitated, they are. This was one of the findings from a study on the giant Australian cuttlefish in Springer's journal Behavioral ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract AbstractIt might seem obvious that a camouflaged animal must generally match its background whereas to be conspicuous an organism must differ ...

Male cuttlefish do not bluff. When their body language shows they are agitated, they are. This was one of the findings from a study on the giant Australian cuttlefish. Male cuttlefish do not bluff.

Every winter in Spencer Gulf, a large inlet intruding into Australia’s south coast, hundreds of thousands of giant cuttlefish gather to breed. They’re about the size and weight of a corgi, with ...

Breeding numbers of giant cuttlefish are bouncing back in South Australian waters, with a 128 per cent rise this season. Fears had been held for the sepia apama species population, when in 2013 ...

A giant Australian cuttlefish blends in with its surroundings. A cuttlefish takes on a "blocky" camouflage pattern on a background of white circles, both complete and incomplete. When the circle ...

Behavioural lateralization is widespread. Yet, a fundamental question remains, how can lateralization be evolutionary stable when individuals lateralized in one direction often significantly outnumber ...

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In this excerpt from the BBC/Discovery documentary Life, we learn about a mating strategy that’s fairly common in the animal world. A female cuttlefish is courted by two males. One is large and ...

This is an illustration of a giant cuttlefish battling brave sailors, depicted in a popular science book from 1872, called The Ocean World, by Louis Figuier. And that’s not the least of the weirdness ...