I ask you, who will pass on an opportunity to check out cephalod courtship? Not me, buddy. (Science Daily: The courting cephalopods of the East China Sea)
Oval squids swim in parallel. The larger squid is the male, and the small squid is the female.
Credit: Mr. Chun-Yen Lin, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
There are Romeo and Juliet now ... and I think I'm going to cry. Or, hold it ... no, that's Juliet and Romeo on the bottom.
Oh, the poetry of the moment.
William Shakespeare wrote with a quill, Helen Keller liked her typewriter, and the oval squid prefers to use its body, when it comes to expressing love. But unlike these famous authors, the romanticisms of Sepioteuthis lessoniana were unknown. Until now.
- SD
Ed: break the author's fingers for writing that?
It may be necessary
These animals do bring coolness and way more than wearing gold chains at a disco.
The animals make use of naturally occurring chromatic components, which are stored within their bodies. They use these to paint their skin with lines, spots and stripes, of varying shades and complexities, to signal their desirability to future lovers and warn off potential foes. Researchers, led by Prof Chiao, took to the East China Sea, near the city of Taipei, to study the oval squid in the wild.
- SD
OK, we're diggin' this. The light show you give shows your heat. Yep, that's impressive.
We have to invoke Shakespeare one more time to close this. We must.
In total, the researchers found five common behavior patterns with their own intricate movements and tone signals, and which are also dependent on an individual squid's standing in the group. This intricate language of patterns, movements and associated behaviors have been compiled into an "ethogram" (a dictionary of a species' communication methods) which will assist in future behavioral studies, not just in these expressive cephalopods, but in other species too.
In time, we may come to understand the exact meanings in the symbols the romantic oval squid adorns on its body. But until then, we will have to make do with the sonnets of Shakespeare to make our partner swoon.
- SD
We sleep perchance to dream ... of oval squid.
Oval squids swim in parallel. The larger squid is the male, and the small squid is the female.
Credit: Mr. Chun-Yen Lin, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
There are Romeo and Juliet now ... and I think I'm going to cry. Or, hold it ... no, that's Juliet and Romeo on the bottom.
Oh, the poetry of the moment.
William Shakespeare wrote with a quill, Helen Keller liked her typewriter, and the oval squid prefers to use its body, when it comes to expressing love. But unlike these famous authors, the romanticisms of Sepioteuthis lessoniana were unknown. Until now.
- SD
Ed: break the author's fingers for writing that?
It may be necessary
These animals do bring coolness and way more than wearing gold chains at a disco.
The animals make use of naturally occurring chromatic components, which are stored within their bodies. They use these to paint their skin with lines, spots and stripes, of varying shades and complexities, to signal their desirability to future lovers and warn off potential foes. Researchers, led by Prof Chiao, took to the East China Sea, near the city of Taipei, to study the oval squid in the wild.
- SD
OK, we're diggin' this. The light show you give shows your heat. Yep, that's impressive.
We have to invoke Shakespeare one more time to close this. We must.
In total, the researchers found five common behavior patterns with their own intricate movements and tone signals, and which are also dependent on an individual squid's standing in the group. This intricate language of patterns, movements and associated behaviors have been compiled into an "ethogram" (a dictionary of a species' communication methods) which will assist in future behavioral studies, not just in these expressive cephalopods, but in other species too.
In time, we may come to understand the exact meanings in the symbols the romantic oval squid adorns on its body. But until then, we will have to make do with the sonnets of Shakespeare to make our partner swoon.
- SD
We sleep perchance to dream ... of oval squid.
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