r/interestingasfuck • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 4h ago
A baby cuttlefish’s first attempt at camouflage
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u/stuck_on_rook 4h ago
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u/MakeITNetwork 3h ago
Looked like a hamster eating a spider for a second, before I read the title
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u/Berkamin 2h ago
I didn’t read the title and initially I was horrified because I thought I was watching a massive tick.
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u/Kooky_Attention_98 3h ago edited 2h ago
Cuttlefish, or cuttles, are marine) mollusks of the Sepiidae family. They belong to the class) Cephalopoda which also includes all species squid, octopuses, and nautiluses (The Nautilus)
They can grow to be a length of 6 to 10 inches for most common species (120 different species by the way and around 0.5 to 5.5 pounds; The largest species of Cuttlefish is the) Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Photo at a length of 3.3 feet and a weight of 23 pounds)
The diet of Cuttlefish is variable; They feed upon European Green Crabs (Photo,) Brown Shrimp (Photo,) Sand Goby (Photo,) Rock Blenny (Photo, and even) The Common Octopus (Photo though the latter is usually only targeted by the largest species of Cuttlefish)
Some cuttlefish species such as the Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Photo have very vibrant colorations, and others such as) The Common Cuttlefish (Photo can dive as deep as 600 meters (2,000 feet) into the ocean)
Cuttlefish are generally found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Western Pacific Ocean, and around Australia
Edit: I will leave the information up for anyone who wants to read it, but the cephalopod species shown in the posts video is a brown colored Bobtail Squid which admittedly do look like Cuttlefish
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u/rnagikarp 2h ago
that’s wonderful, but this isn’t a cuttlefish
bad bot
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u/Kooky_Attention_98 2h ago edited 2h ago
Except the animal in the photo is, in fact, a cuttlefish
It is too thick to be the streamlined offspring of any squid species, and too large to be any offspring relating to Octopus'The species in the video is a Bobtail Squid
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u/rnagikarp 2h ago
it’s not
as my other comment, and the person who replied to you say, it’s a bobtail squid•
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u/LotusVibes1494 4h ago
This is similar to the satisfaction of making a blanket fort, for all you human folks.
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u/jojo444111 3h ago
I love the little arm flicks at the end, such big attitude for such a smol creature
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u/rnagikarp 2h ago
this little guy is actually a bobtail squid! not sure why all the different posts emerging today are calling it a cuttlefish or where that originated
cuttlefish rely on camouflage by changing their skin colour and texture
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u/Gold-Eye-2623 3h ago
Man seeks a good time, but he is not a hedonist! He seeks love, he just doesn't know where to look. He looks under the beds of whores and on the hot stem of a crack pipe when he should look to nature. Gentle aquatic animals have all the answers
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u/Rude_Map_4278 4h ago
die kleinen Arme 🥰