The Camouflage Feature of Squid Has Been Proven For The First Time

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 solid evidence of the ability of cephalopod chambers, such as octopus and squid, to camouflage themselves. With recent studies, it has been proven that squids also have the ability to camouflage.

It was noticed that the squids took on a dark color on mossy floors.

Squid were added to creatures that avoid dangerous situations by changing the color of the ground they are in, with the research of scientists from Okinawa Science and Technology Graduate University. 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. your squid, are light-colored when in an empty part of the tank however, when they come upon algae and algae, their color darkens and almost the same color as the ground observed.

It was also observed that the color of the squid lightened or darkened due to being on algae or at different depths of the water surface. Scientists who were surprised that this had not been discovered before, It is very difficult to do this research on squids due to their nature. says. Co-author of the study, Dr. Ryuta Nakajima “If the squid’s reaction with the ground is important to avoid potential predators; This suggests that increases or decreases in squid populations are more tied to the health of coral reefs than we thought.” said. 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.

Squids have been spotted changing color for the first time