
How Animal Camouflage Works
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The Effects of Cuttlefish on Color Change
When you see an octopus quick change color or a cuttlefish. They have aridophores too, right? Yeah. It looks like it's just become a completely different animal. Not just color wise, but texture and all that. It's all just optical illusions. What's nuts though, Chuck, is they've studied the cuttlefish and it's a color-changing maniac.Yeah. Cuttlefish are colorblind. They know that it's visually driven because they've deprived it of visual cues before and shown that it's not quite as adept at changing its colors. yeah. Exactly.
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