Sentences with phrase «of cuttlefish»

My views on the cuttlefish numbers are based on my own observations - as a long time diver and observer of the cuttlefish I have seen a drastic decline in numbers over recent years, and I have also noticed a marked increase in seasonal water temperatures.

I - and a lot of other divers — suspect that delays in water temperature decrease causes subsequent delays in the congregation of cuttlefish, and they simply don't arrive in time for the breeding season.

This week in Amed, we encountered a whole group of Cuttlefish right by the Dive center, in Melasti, a Muck Dive site in Amed, that our Dive guides can get you to discover all year round.

Or if you are a keen photographer then you can take underwater photos of cuttlefish or the leopard sharks at Shark Point or Koh Phi Phi.

Previous guests love the central location of Cuttlefish Cottage as they can leave their car and walk everywhere.

Six main Avengers, a handful of S.H.I.E.L.D mainstays and three flesh - and - blood newbies, not to mention a robot army, means it's already a battle for screen time, yet AOU still manages to be cameo - tastic, bringing back a host of favourites from previous stand - alone movies as well as some significant fresh supporting characters (including Andy Serkis as an arms dealer who's afraid of cuttlefish).

In this one - hour NOVA documentary, the cameras take viewers on a journey into the secret life of the cuttlefish to see its many strange and unexpected talents.

An aeroplane in close quarters would probably drop smoke bombs to obscure the enemy's vision, on the principle of the cuttlefish.

Messenger then compared close - ups of the cuttlefish's skin (middle column) with the gravel photographed through a green lens, as a cuttlefish would see it (photos at right).

«Some of the cuttlefish, for example, can go from bright red, which means stay away, to zebra - striped, which is an invitation for mating.»

Of the approximately 100 species of cuttlefish, the giant is (unsurprisingly) the world's largest.

Toward the end of the cuttlefish breeding season, fights between competing males are common, and many bear scars from the encounters.

In 1968, two researchers from Fort Hays Kansas State College studying cephalopods from the Niobrara Formation compared the specimen with a cuttlefish, based primarily on its textural similarities to a cuttlebone — the unique internal shell of cuttlefish.

Its exact causes are still uncertain, but its growth may be spurred by the irritation created by indigestible elements in the foods eaten by the whales, such as the beaks of cuttlefish, which are almost invariably found in ambergris.

There is still plenty of unexplored wordage for anyone who would like to engage in the thrill of recognizing a new Deanism — a thrill not unlike that known to skin - divers who find themselves face to face with some rare specimen of cuttlefish far below the surface of everyday existence.

I tried making this using dried shrimp instead of cuttlefish and it still turned out great!

Not exact matches

Intense and exotic aromas wafted from the food stalls which sported an intriguing array of signs, such as «Juriah Nasi Padang» and «Rojak Tow Kua Pow Cuttlefish.»

Prepare 3 cups (1/2 lb) of seasoned cuttlefish.

Nongshim produces a variety of instant noodle soup products like ramyun in bowls and dry form, as well as onion rings, shrimp crackers, tako chips and snacks with potato, banana or cuttlefish flavor.

We are now the leaders in importing and distributing the highest quality of tenderized octopus and cuttlefish.

Summons, who was part of a research team that studied fossils of squid to show that ink from the Jurassic period was chemically indistinguishable from modern cuttlefish ink, said the study further helps demonstrate how all living things on Earth have evolved in concert.

Scientists have long known that cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis, shown) and some of their kin stop breathing when threatened by predators, but they supposed that freezing in place merely aided the creature's visual camouflage.

Covering the cavity holding their gills may help a stock - still cuttlefish in another way too, the researchers suggest: It may stifle water flow in and out of that recess, thereby reducing the size of tiny pressure waves that could alert predators to the creature's presence.

Turns out, it serves another purpose: A lack of water flowing over the gills decreases electrical activity there that can betray the cuttlefish's presence to foraging sharks, a new study suggests.

Electroencephalograms of other invertebrates show spiky static — «like bacon frying,» says neurophysiologist Ted Bullock of the University of California at San Diego, who nonetheless found vertebratelike slow waves in octopuses and cuttlefish.

When the frightened creatures froze in place and covered the cavity leading to the gills with their tentacles, the voltage in the water nearby dropped by about 80 %, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Subsequent lab tests on two types of sharks revealed that the tactic works beautifully: When the researchers generated voltages to simulate the presence of a resting cuttlefish, the sharks could detect the electronic equipment from a distance of 20 centimeters and struck at it 62 % of the time.

Mather and O'Dor found that the Bermudan O. vulgaris spends just 7 percent of its time hunting; Australian giant cuttlefish spend 3 percent.

This cuttlefish has already mated and is nearing the end of its life.

As his death neared, he wrote of his fading hearing, perceiving a story about a big - time publicist diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as a story about a «cuttlefish.»

When development progresses normally, hatchlings emerge as fully formed miniature versions of the adult cuttlefish about 3 — 5 months after the eggs are laid.

A pair of male giant Australian cuttlefish face off at sunrise.

Masters of disguise, cuttlefish can alter the appearance of their skin to match the color, shade patters, and even the form of surrounding algae fronds.

These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

Octopuses and their relatives (cuttlefish and squid) represent an island of mental complexity in the sea of invertebrate animals.

Roger is a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole; his specialty is the study of cephalopods, a family of sea creatures that include octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes.

One of Roger's video clips shows a giant cuttlefish pursuing a crab.

If two male cuttlefish show each other dark faces, the confrontation usually turns physical, while if only one of the males puts on his dark face, the paler - faced cuttlefish typically backs down, a behavior pattern strikingly similar to the one the researchers observed in the octopuses» color displays.

Octopuses, cuttlefish and squid belong to a class of marine mollusks called cephalopods, along with now extinct creatures called ammonites and belemnites.

Neuroscientist Shelley Adamo of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia also had one cuttlefish that reliably squirted streams of water at all new visitors to the lab but not at people who were often around.

And a 2012 study led by Jean G. Boal of Millersville University in Pennsylvania discovered that cuttlefish appear to have a form of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, similar to the sleep in which we dream.

Amazingly, though, cuttlefish are essentially color blind; they're sensitive only to shades of green, yellow, and blue.

Yellow, green, and blue gravels look almost uniformly bright to the cuttlefish, while red gravel, which absorbs most of the light that hits it, looks dark.

«We looked at organisms like the cuttlefish, which change their appearance depending on their environment, and the banyan tree, which grows above - ground roots to support the increasing weight of the trunk,» Correll said.

He placed cuttlefish in tanks with patterns of colored gravel on the bottom.

We used an extensive dataset of 35 different species (52 % squid, 31 % octopus and 17 % cuttlefish) from all major oceanic regions.

Bottom - dwelling octopus and cuttlefish who live relatively static lives are thriving, as are squid that hover over the bottom, along with those in the open ocean that may travel thousands of kilometres from spawning to feeding sites.

The researchers, led by James Pikul of the University of Pennsylvania and Robert Shepherd of Cornell University, took inspiration from the 3D bumps, or papillae, that octopus and cuttlefish can inflate using muscle units in one - fifth of a second for camouflaging.

Inspired by cephalopods — squid, octopus, and cuttlefish — which use ring - shaped muscles to squeeze small bumps on their skin into large bulges that mimic rocks and algae, researchers created similar reversible protrusions with sheets of stretchy silicone.

The answer can be found in the footage below, the first of its kind to capture a male cuttlefish brawl in the wild.