Cephalopoda is a varied and unusual class that has occupied oceanic habitats all over the world for millions of years. One species in particular, Octopus vulgaris, or the common octopus has a nearly global range. Because of their soft bodies and lack of hard, protective outer covering octopuses are highly vulnerable to numerous predators. However, octopuses have evolved to compensate for this loss with a number of other anti-predator defenses, namely camouflage and substrate-hiding. Camouflage allows the octopuses to alter their appearance into a variety of colors, textures and shapes as they move through their environments, hiding in plain sight from predators. Substrate-hiding allows octopuses to use their surroundings to their advantage,...
[[abstract]]Individual cuttlefish, octopus and squid have the versatile capability to use body patte...
Coleoid cephalopods camouflage on timescales of seconds to match their visual surroundings. To date,...
Here I search for the potential relationship between behavioural flexibility and brains in cephalopo...
Cephalopoda is a varied and unusual class that has occupied oceanic habitats all over the world for ...
Cephalopods have two main defence strategies: the first consists on reducing the odds of being detec...
Animals must choose between avoiding possible death or increasing energy input by feeding. Octopuses...
[ES] This study highlights for the first time individual differences in ethology and vulnerability o...
Organisms experience physiological and ecological changes during ontogenesis, and studies have shown...
Camouflage versatility is probably no better developed in the animal kingdom than in the coleoid cep...
Living under intense predation pressure, octopuses evolved an effective and impressive camouflaging ...
During research dives in Indonesia (Sulawesi and Bali), we filmed a distinctive long-armed octopus, ...
Living under intense predation pressure, octopuses evolved an effective and impressive camouflaging ...
The deep sea is the largest habitat on Earth and holds the majority of its' animal biomass. Due to t...
To avoid predation, octopuses select and actively modify shelters (also called dens) in the substrat...
Author Posting. © Marine Biological Laboratory, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of ...
[[abstract]]Individual cuttlefish, octopus and squid have the versatile capability to use body patte...
Coleoid cephalopods camouflage on timescales of seconds to match their visual surroundings. To date,...
Here I search for the potential relationship between behavioural flexibility and brains in cephalopo...
Cephalopoda is a varied and unusual class that has occupied oceanic habitats all over the world for ...
Cephalopods have two main defence strategies: the first consists on reducing the odds of being detec...
Animals must choose between avoiding possible death or increasing energy input by feeding. Octopuses...
[ES] This study highlights for the first time individual differences in ethology and vulnerability o...
Organisms experience physiological and ecological changes during ontogenesis, and studies have shown...
Camouflage versatility is probably no better developed in the animal kingdom than in the coleoid cep...
Living under intense predation pressure, octopuses evolved an effective and impressive camouflaging ...
During research dives in Indonesia (Sulawesi and Bali), we filmed a distinctive long-armed octopus, ...
Living under intense predation pressure, octopuses evolved an effective and impressive camouflaging ...
The deep sea is the largest habitat on Earth and holds the majority of its' animal biomass. Due to t...
To avoid predation, octopuses select and actively modify shelters (also called dens) in the substrat...
Author Posting. © Marine Biological Laboratory, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of ...
[[abstract]]Individual cuttlefish, octopus and squid have the versatile capability to use body patte...
Coleoid cephalopods camouflage on timescales of seconds to match their visual surroundings. To date,...
Here I search for the potential relationship between behavioural flexibility and brains in cephalopo...