Researchers observed the common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) routinely wave its arms in four flashy gestures. Cuttlefish wave their expressive arms in four distinctive dancelike signals—potentially ...
Cuttlefish are strange animals with some strange means of communication. Now, these cephalopods have been recorded using their arms in a way that looks like they are gesturing to each other – adding a ...
Animals, like us, experience a deterioration of memory in old age. A new study, however, indicates that cuttlefish are the first species in which this appears not to be the case. Building on previous ...
A cute observation in the cephalopods' behavior indicates they also react to sound waves, a notion that will soon be tested with a machine learning approach. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers just ...
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We Already Knew That Cephalopods Were Intelligent, but Not to This Extent: A Cuttlefish Has Passed a Test Designed for Children
A new study has revealed that common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) are capable of delayed gratification, a trait previously ...
Can you remember what you had for dinner last weekend? That ability is a function of episodic memory, and how well we can recall the time and place of specific events typically declines with age.
A new study suggests that the European cuttlefish may combine, as necessary, two distinct neural systems that process specific visual features from its local environment, and visual cues relating to ...
Source: Adam Dewan, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license. Cuttlefish, like their fellow cephalopods squid and octopus, are known for their intelligent and complex behaviors.
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...
Coleoid cephalopods have the most elaborate camouflage system in the animal kingdom. This enables them to hide from or deceive both predators and prey. Most studies have focused on benthic species of ...
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