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Amazing video cuttlefish allows you to admire superpowered this cephalopod mollusk rapidly change your coloring. Flowery Cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi) was filmed Japanese diver. Mollusk changes its appearance thanks to chromatophores – pigment-containing skin cells.
It should be noted that many of the marine inhabitants and they do this in order to merge with the environment. A here the flowery cuttlefish warns with its bright color: “Do not eat me! “(exactly the same thing, for example, is known to everyone “ladybug”). The fact is that this mollusk is no less toxic than the awful blue-ringed octopus, and it’s quite common for people seldom.
Flowery cuttlefish is often called the “sea chameleon.” These animals, like their “relatives” octopuses and squids, are capable of change its color in 300 milliseconds, i.e. in three tenths of a fraction seconds. For example, if a cuttlefish wants to change its own three times color per second, then our eye will not even notice its intermediate tones.
For many years, cephalopods have been inspiring bioengineers and scientists who are trying to imitate the process animals change their color. Their goal is to create “artificial leather” – a unique human camouflage. However, achievements in this area are not yet high, which tells us about how “inventive” and perfect Nature is.
