Perhaps the most different and interesting creature of the cephalopod class, the squid has finally shown us a feature that has never been discovered before. You know that octopuses and squids can camouflage themselves when they feel threatened or need to hide.
Scientists had no concrete evidence of the ability of cephalopod chambers such as octopuses and squids to camouflage themselves. With recent studies, it has been proven that squids also have the ability to camouflage.
It was noticed that squids took on a dark color on mossy floors
With the research conducted by scientists from Okinawa Science and Technology Graduate University, they can get rid of dangerous situations by taking the color of the ground they are on. squids were also added to the avoiding creatures. Until now, this feature of squid was predictable, but not proven. With the new research, it has been proven for the first time that squid can camouflage. To prove this, the researchers studied the behavior of squid in a tank. It was observed that the squids were light-colored when they were in an empty part of the tank, but when they came on the algae and algae, their color darkened and became almost the same color as the ground.
It has also been observed that the color of the squid becomes lighter or darker due to being on algae or at different depths of the water surface. Surprised that this has not been discovered before, scientists say that doing this research on squids is inherently difficult. Co-author of the study, Dr. Ryuta Nakajima said, “If the squid’s reaction with the ground is important to avoid potential predators; “This indicates that increases or decreases in squid populations are more connected to the health of coral reefs than we thought.” At the same time, the scientists who carried out the research were able to record these images with the cameras they placed inside the water tank.
Squid change color spotted for the first time
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