Many animals must sneak up on their prey to ensure that they can manage to catch a good meal. Whether it's a big cat slinking through the grass or a stealthy slider, predators often go to extreme ...

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He now plans to focus on how the other displays function, and to investigate what makes cuttlefish choose one hunting display over another. He said, "It was a truly magical experience seeing this ...

The experts recorded cuttlefish targeting crabs and noticed a striking display that seems to distract the prey’s motion-detection system. They introduced a high-contrast moving pattern that travels ...

In this study published today in Science Advances, the team uncovered a novel form of motion camouflage, whereby the broadclub cuttlefish pass dark stripes downwards across their head and arms to ...

According to research from the team, the giant cuttlefish employs four unique behaviors to confuse its prey during hunting. Notably, these include the flowing stripes, swaying its body from side ...

He now plans to focus on how the other displays function, and to investigate what makes cuttlefish choose one hunting display over another. He said: “It was a truly magical experience seeing ...

Marine ecologists led by Matteo Santon documented the Broadclub cuttlefish's remarkable hunting strategies in the wild, including imitating corals and leaves to deceive crabs. The study ...

By placing cameras at a crab’s eye level, researchers at the University of Bristol discovered broadclub cuttlefish can disguise hunting manoeuvres that prey recognise. They do this by shimmering ...