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Deep-sea Camouflage Tactics Revealed
Honken writes "A recent study by scientists at Duke University has found that transparent deep-sea octopuses turn red when exposed to blue light similar to what predators emit, allowing them to hide using both transparency and by absorbing the wavelengths of the blueish light emitted by deep-sea predators. The Register quickly made the not-so-obvious connection to Kindles and squid video playback, whereas Discovery News reports on slightly more useful yet exotic applications, such as fishing nets that are invisible only to the species that it intends to catch."
... my fish from refigerator?
I assumed the point was that free enterprise cephalopods are able to make better pigments and employ better camouflage tactics then their larger, slower, and dumber government bureaucratic cousins.
You're obviously japanese. Not to be racist; its just I've never seen tentacle porn aficionados of any other nationality.
Negative, I am American. I know very few tentacle porn researchers that are Japanese. Most of them tend to be Australian.
Given how much you know about cephs, do you still eat calamari?
Semi-serious ethical question. As a SCUBA diver that's interacted with Octopus on a few occasions, I find I don't really have an appetite for them any more.
I won't eat cuttles. I raised too many generations, and they are at least as smart as dogs and trainable with Pavlovian methods. That moves them out of the food category in my mind.
Heck, I even trained a couple to ink on command. How can I eat my Super Cephalopod Inking Squad?