Cuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] Cuttlefish are not fish at all, and they're not particularly good at cuddling… not that I've tried or anything. But these tentacled relatives of squid and octopus do have one amazing sneaky skill. So I love cuttlefish because of their color-changing abilities, tell us a little about that. You know, the ability that cuttlefish and cephalopods have to change their color it's unmatched in the animal kingdom, no chameleon, fish, there's nothing out there that can change color as instantaneously as these cephalopods, so how they do that is that they have a whole bunch of little tiny cells in their skin called chromatophores, they're color changing cells. "Chromatophores are groups of pigment cells controlled by finely tuned muscles. When the mu...
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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] Cuttlefish are not fish at all, and they're not particularly good at cuddling… not that I've tried or anything. But these tentacled relatives of squid and octopus do have one amazing sneaky skill. So I love cuttlefish because of their color-changing abilities, tell us a little about that. You know, the ability that cuttlefish and cephalopods have to change their color it's unmatched in the animal kingdom, no chameleon, fish, there's nothing out there that can change color as instantaneously as these cephalopods, so how they do that is that they have a whole bunch of little tiny cells in their skin called chromatophores, they're color changing cells. "Chromatophores are groups of pigment cells controlled by finely tuned muscles. When the mu...
