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The cuttlefish is my favourite creature to come across while scuba diving. I've seen them settle down on the seabed next to some vegetation and just disappear.
by lobster_johnson 9y ago
The cuttlefish is my favourite creature to come across while scuba diving. I've seen them settle down on the seabed next to some vegetation and just disappear. It turns green and fuzzy, and sends up little tendrils that look like seagrass and semi-translucent blobs of algae. Even knowing that it's there, it's usually impossible to see that it's a cuttlefish. YouTube videos don't do it justice; I've never found any videos that show the level of camouflage it can do. (The video in the article, though, is amazing in the level of detail shown.)
- samplatt 9y agoThe best part is if you remain almost motionless, sometimes their curiosity overcomes their fear and they come up to check you out. I've been more struck by intelligence in an animal than with cuttlefish.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoI did a couple of dives out of Whyalla, South Australia, which, at the time, about twenty years ago, I was told, was the only known cuttlefish breeding ground. I must have seen about a squillion cuttlefish and cuttlefish eggs.