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Did a Cuttlefish Write This?

54 points by Thevet 5y ago

haspoken 5y ago
https://archive.is/HblPy https://archive.is/HblPy
bitwize 5y ago
Cuttlefish are amazing. They don't just look like tiny Cthulhus, their behavior is also quite Lovecraftian. What does Cthulhu do? He drives you mad, then he eats you. When a cuttlefish comes up on prey, it flashes its chromatophores in trippy, rippling patterns that daze or even hypnotize the poor creature, giving the cuttlefish the opportunity to devour it.
reidjs 5y ago
“they have three hearts, green blood and one of the largest brains among invertebrates,” she said. “And they can regenerate their limbs, they can camouflage” Never heard of cuttlefish before this article, but they sound awesome.
- earleybird 5y ago
  And they may[0] be persons[1] :-) Being a cephalopod and that. [0] depending on jurisdiction [1]https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lobsters-octopus-and-crabs-recognised-as-sentient-beings https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lobsters-octopus-and-crab...
  - handol 5y ago
    You can still raise sentient animals for slaughter, it's pretty far from being a legal person. Other animals in the sentient legal category include all vertebrates.
- sofetch 5y ago
  Perhaps not an HN-friendly link, but I love zefrank's "True Facts about the Cuttlefish": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ
wk_end 5y ago
Might be off base here, but I think the title of this article discussing the sophistication of cuttlefish is a reference to this classic tweet [1], and while I kind of have the urge to write a comment exploring the shift in our culture that causes or permits The Newspaper of Record to make a joke a like that, I mostly just find it really funny. [1] https://twitter.com/ilikemints/status/643552504723148800 https://twitter.com/ilikemints/status/643552504723148800
pontsprit 5y ago
Furthermore the pigment sepia, a beautiful brown color used historically in inks and paint, is derived by removing the ink sac from the cuttlefish (it shoots ink like a squid). Although it has largely been replaced by synthetic alternatives, you can still obtain traditional sepia from places like Kremer's Pigments - which is a supplier of historic pigments, mediums, and recipes (used by conservationists and artists who like to make their own paint). I find the brown color of the traditional sepia to be extremely beautiful, the dried pigment has an extremely pungent odor, quite similar to the dried squid you might find at your local Asian fish market.
okonomiyaki3000 5y ago
TL;DR No.
- tontonius 5y ago
  Betteridges Law of Headlines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)
wombatmobile 5y ago
> the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence Cuttlefish teach us that the "secret" about intelligence is that it is all around us. What blinds us to seeing it is that we only recognise it easily in things that look like us and act like us and appear to share our values. Once you have spent enough time in cuttlefishes world to appreciate their intelligence, and beauty, you are a cross cultural explorer who can travel to all kinds of other worlds and see them for what they are - intelligent kingdoms as complex as ours, only different.
gverrilla 5y ago
There's this nice full episode about cephalopods on the doc Animal by netflix. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15964252/?ref_=ttep_ep4 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15964252/?ref_=ttep_ep4

54 points by Thevet 5y ago

https://archive.is/HblPy https://archive.is/HblPy

Cuttlefish are amazing. They don't just look like tiny Cthulhus, their behavior is also quite Lovecraftian. What does Cthulhu do? He drives you mad, then he eats you. When a cuttlefish comes up on prey, it flashes its chromatophores in trippy, rippling patterns that daze or even hypnotize the poor creature, giving the cuttlefish the opportunity to devour it.

reidjs 5y ago

“they have three hearts, green blood and one of the largest brains among invertebrates,” she said. “And they can regenerate their limbs, they can camouflage” Never heard of cuttlefish before this article, but they sound awesome.

earleybird 5y ago
And they may[0] be persons[1] :-) Being a cephalopod and that. [0] depending on jurisdiction [1]https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lobsters-octopus-and-crabs-recognised-as-sentient-beings https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lobsters-octopus-and-crab...
- handol 5y ago
  You can still raise sentient animals for slaughter, it's pretty far from being a legal person. Other animals in the sentient legal category include all vertebrates.
sofetch 5y ago
Perhaps not an HN-friendly link, but I love zefrank's "True Facts about the Cuttlefish": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ

wk_end 5y ago

Might be off base here, but I think the title of this article discussing the sophistication of cuttlefish is a reference to this classic tweet [1], and while I kind of have the urge to write a comment exploring the shift in our culture that causes or permits The Newspaper of Record to make a joke a like that, I mostly just find it really funny. [1] https://twitter.com/ilikemints/status/643552504723148800 https://twitter.com/ilikemints/status/643552504723148800

pontsprit 5y ago

Furthermore the pigment sepia, a beautiful brown color used historically in inks and paint, is derived by removing the ink sac from the cuttlefish (it shoots ink like a squid). Although it has largely been replaced by synthetic alternatives, you can still obtain traditional sepia from places like Kremer's Pigments - which is a supplier of historic pigments, mediums, and recipes (used by conservationists and artists who like to make their own paint). I find the brown color of the traditional sepia to be extremely beautiful, the dried pigment has an extremely pungent odor, quite similar to the dried squid you might find at your local Asian fish market.

okonomiyaki3000 5y ago

TL;DR No.

tontonius 5y ago
Betteridges Law of Headlines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)

wombatmobile 5y ago

> the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence Cuttlefish teach us that the "secret" about intelligence is that it is all around us. What blinds us to seeing it is that we only recognise it easily in things that look like us and act like us and appear to share our values. Once you have spent enough time in cuttlefishes world to appreciate their intelligence, and beauty, you are a cross cultural explorer who can travel to all kinds of other worlds and see them for what they are - intelligent kingdoms as complex as ours, only different.

gverrilla 5y ago

There's this nice full episode about cephalopods on the doc Animal by netflix. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15964252/?ref_=ttep_ep4 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15964252/?ref_=ttep_ep4