The Insane Biology of: The Cuttlefish

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5 ай бұрын

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@kated3165 5 ай бұрын

Saw one while snorkeling in Spain once! Brave little bugger faced me and lifted two tiny tentacles above its head in an attempt to ''look bigger'' and intimidate me. It was so fricking goofy and adorable!

@kayleighgroenendal8473 5 ай бұрын

I would act scared to give him a lil confidence boost 😂

@WAMTAT 5 ай бұрын

Sounds scary to me

@kated3165 5 ай бұрын

@@kayleighgroenendal8473 Awww, I probably should have done that! ❤

@toryumau6798 5 ай бұрын

… The (Relatively) Old Cuttlefish: Git off mah lawn! [ Menaces with danger noodles ] D^B(

@realscience 5 ай бұрын

I would love to see that lol

@joshuazeeman7553 5 ай бұрын

My favorite part about cuttlefish is that their pigmentation changes while they sleep and will sometimes just explode with brilliant displays of color without any outside stimulus. We may never know why this happens but it really seems like some reflection of their dreams.

@MichaelWinter-ss6lx 3 ай бұрын

Of course it's reflexions of dreams. We should by now be very sure that animals dream. Who has not seen a dog dream of running, or the cats tail go wild while she sleeps? We should assume dreaming to be the norm. At least by intelligent creatures.

@raymondmcyeetface6850 25 күн бұрын

I've heard that they're able to achieve REM sleep (the state of sleep in which humans usually dream). So they're likely able to dream.

@benjaminanderson1014 5 ай бұрын

Imagine being male and hanging out with a woman and her husband, and wearing drag on the half of your body facing the husband and normal clothes on the other half, and convincing the man you're a woman who wants to sleep with him, while simultaneously sleeping with his wife. Sounds like a good sitcom episode

@Maric18 5 ай бұрын

the femboys are up to something

@3g0st 5 ай бұрын

You just accidentally explained gender nonconforming ppl and i think that's great

@t.k.5088 5 ай бұрын

@3g0st gnc people aren't trying to trick anyone for the sake of reproduction. What are you trying to say? 💀

@Tahu33446 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like Baron Ashura from mazinger

@Tennosoul 5 ай бұрын

@@3g0st no he didn’t it’s literally ntr

@allisonbergh4429 5 ай бұрын

Cuttlefish have also demonstrated the ability to pass the Stanford marshmallow test - deferring gratification in order to obtain a larger reward. Watching footage of the tests is fascinating, as the cuttlefish display a lot of the same self-distraction techniques used by human toddlers taking similar tests.

@jamesbarisitz4794 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your work bringing the abilities of these fascinating creatures to the KZfaq audience! I grew up watching Jaques Cousteau specials on tv, and your docs are so enlightening. 😊

@3squ1l0 5 ай бұрын

2 minutes in & I'm already hyped. This channel rocks

@pyropulseIXXI 5 ай бұрын

@@3squ1l0 Rocks my socks off!

@silverXnoise 5 ай бұрын

What a coincidence, my elderly father also uses “ambling” to get around. He also uses flashing colors to mesmerize his victims, but that’s another story.

@retard_activated 5 ай бұрын

😂

@Just_Sara 5 ай бұрын

Can’t wait to hear it! 😱

@_Solaris 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like your old man has game 👍

@WynnofThule 5 ай бұрын

Octodad

@NiqIce 5 ай бұрын

‘flashing’ to ‘mesmerize’…. mf this joke is wild

@SelkieTears Ай бұрын

the only time i've ever snorkelled in my life as a little kid, I had the pleasuere of meeting a little cuttlefish i was so surprised I just stopped for a second and stared and the little guy stared back before shooting away. I've never felt like I've been regarded by an animal like that before - it really felt like it was actually considering me before deciding I wasn't anything interesting and going on its way. I love cuttlefish so much, my favourite cephalopod for sure 😊

@lavankugadas1663 5 ай бұрын

I love science

@aliensinmyass7867 5 ай бұрын

I FREAKING LOVE SOYENCE 🤓🤓🤓

@lezkuh 5 ай бұрын

agreed

@fennten8338 5 ай бұрын

Hell yeah

@jinstinky501 5 ай бұрын

It's pronounced 'stience'

@spencerthompson1049 5 ай бұрын

It's the closest we as bipedal apes can get to the truth of this universe we live in, it's amazing.

@Jared-e 5 ай бұрын

Here in Australia I find “cuttle bones” on the beach all the time. Birds love them. If you tie a bone up in their aviary, they’ll use it to sharpen their beaks and as a calcium supplement. You can buy them in pet stores too. I assume it’s the same in the USA?

@pettybroccoli 5 ай бұрын

It’s the same here in stores

@zegreatpumpkinani9161 5 ай бұрын

My turtle sharpens his beak on them too!

@pluspiping 4 ай бұрын

I was never sure if the "cuttle bones" we gave our cockatiel were actual bones... but now I have learned for sure they are! Fascinating. And yup, bird loved em. Bought em in the pet store, and she nibbled and scratched on them.

@CharlieApples 4 ай бұрын

Parrot rescuer from USA here; yep we also give birds cuttlebones. Cuttlefish are plentiful in the Gulf of Mexico, you can see some at most reef snorkeling spots off the coast of Florida.

@vice.nor.virtue 5 ай бұрын

I am so happy that you covered the Cuttlefish. As much as I think of Octopusses as aliens, when I look at a Cuttlefish just **exist** I'm like, what fricking asteroid did you arrive on? The way it's mouth is positioned behind the little arms is so peculiar that one can't even tell where the heck the mouth is or whether they're looking at it from the front or the back even after many times of looking at this creature. Everyone wonders what sci-fi creatures from other worlds would look like and I'm literally here going "Duide. Have you even SEEN The insane Biology of the cuttlefish?? It makes Avatar look like a documentary about goats, horses and pigeons".

@WebOSDevelops 4 ай бұрын

Exactly man! This thing looks like it evolved on Chriirah!!

@alinatried8552 5 ай бұрын

This was such a wonderful episode, i absolutely love watching these videos while i draw. better than any netflix documentary i've seen, and the lady's voice is so soothing and charming. thank you so much for making this fantastic quality content available to us for free

@TrabberShir 5 ай бұрын

11:35 The chromatic aberration would not be limited to RGB, that would allow distinguishing a whole lot of spectral colors within the range their photoreceptors are sensitive to, the limiting factor for a cuttlefish is probably processing power if that is how they are detecting color. RGB wouldn't even be the easiest/most likely if their vision is based on this and only processing three colors.

@2424Lars 5 ай бұрын

It's a very interesting way of doing spectroscopy, I wonder if there's any real world applications for this

@pyropulseIXXI 5 ай бұрын

Processing power? Really? No, their 'processing power' is not the limiting factor; they don't even have 'processing power;' their brains are not CPUs or computers. Also, just to let you know, the worlds most advanced super computer and AI cannot even model the behavior of a simple FLY in a real time simulation, yet a simple fly brain can do all this using a fraction of the power and a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of any supposed 'processing power.'

@spindoctor6385 5 ай бұрын

I saw a cuttlefish video showing one individual who had a potential mate on one side of him and a rival on the other. He was simultaneously flashing the mating pattern to the female and the aggressive warning pattern to the other male. The control is amazing.

@frankstonsafranek4454 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. As always, it was very informative and interesting and very enjoyable to watch. I was lucky enough to dive with the giant cuttlefish during spawning time in South Australia in July. They are truly magnificent creatures.

@d4mdcykey 5 ай бұрын

This is easily the most fascinating animal of any on earth for me. What a majestic creature.

@logoutplz 5 ай бұрын

I promise this is my favorite creature on earth. Everyone asks me what my favorite animal is and when I reply "Cuttlefish" i get the oddest looks 😅

@ArchettosDrinkingBuddy 5 ай бұрын

I once had an encounter with squids while swimming in a reef near us, there was an anchored raft at the edge of a drop off where I often rest and I saw a group of squids at the edge, lined up horizontally with a relative distance with each other, as if they were forming up a defensive line. Don't know what they were up to, but seeing that was enough to mesmerize me, Cephalopods are such amazing creatures.

@samuelburton302 5 ай бұрын

Like a group of outlaws on horseback waiting to rob a train

@edibleghost 5 ай бұрын

I just found your channel today and the wonderful thing about you is that not only do you solve these mysteries but you show the mystery in its entirety first.

@silverXnoise 5 ай бұрын

The Insane Biology of: These Goddamn Aliens, Vol. 2

@abhidey646 5 ай бұрын

What an unexpectedly incredible and delightful cephalopod! Cell to Singularity is also a very relaxing way to pass time :)

@nullmojo7483 5 ай бұрын

My favourite animal in the world!, they're smart, master of disguise like ocean ninja, and seeing them changing color is so bizzare.

@realfishscience7842 5 ай бұрын

Literally love these videos so fucking much dude you have no idea how much time I would have spent looking for good research papers to quote (well, I guess the same/less than you but anyway) and it’s all so well squished together! Can’t wait for the next upload!

@Sunflowersarepretty 5 ай бұрын

They are fascinating creatures. Their camouflage is hypnotizing and I can just look at it for hours. Their mating strategies tho 😂😂😂 truly big brain creatures

@abcde_fz 4 ай бұрын

Only halfway through, and I can say without fear of contradiction that this is the _best_ short subject film on Cuttlefish I've ever seen!!! Absolutely _packed_ with interesting and informative facts, and solid gold in it's graphic data representation choices. Good show!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

@nsmith5265 4 ай бұрын

I scuba'd through a curtain of these amazing creatures, separating me from my family in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. They radiated a color as though they were communicating. It was insane and I was so young that it was almost unbelievable. I had to ignore the fact they created a wall and pierced through gently and the curtain opened. I knew the colors were communicating something tool.

@TheHairlessGibbon 5 ай бұрын

I love the depth at which you delve backed up with appropriate imagery. Nothing you provide is guffy stock. Tip Top job. Well done and Thank You.

@kowloonbroadcast 4 ай бұрын

great soundtrack in this one. appreciate your taste for background music in your videos in general 🙌🏼

@stvie3 5 ай бұрын

always impressed by how your vids transcend the initial topic. the opposite of clickbait

@Hangreek 5 ай бұрын

Your videos are the best as always. Thank you for you pursuit in creating incredible and educational content. You have taught me so much. Your deep dives enlighten even the knowledgeable. Onto Nebula!

@user-iq2no3lk2i 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the fantastic documentary! I really enjoyed the eye part and how cuttlefish is able to percive colour. Nature always has a way.

@jakerubino3233 5 ай бұрын

I live in Adelaide South Australia and we have the worlds largest breeding area for giant cuttlefish in our state. Wonderful animals indeed. Some of the cartilage that washes up on our beaches can get huge!

@TsunamiBeefPies 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for all of your beautifully produced and educational videos. But especially for this one! Count me as a cuttlefish enthusiast! They fascinate and amaze me.

@doctoroctococks8968 2 ай бұрын

Great videos, and the fact that you save the ads for the end is *chef's kiss.

@GeoffryGifari 5 ай бұрын

Is it possible that the cuttlefish's habitat and the ability to camouflage perpetuates a cycle of increasing intelligence? Visually complex habitat -> camouflage creates advantage -> needs larger brain to camouflage better and control appearance with detail -> more cuttlefish with better camouflage and shape-shifting -> need more brains to be able to compete -> more cuttlefish with better camouflage and shape-shifting -> need more brains to be able to compete -> ....

@Aquamayne100 5 ай бұрын

"Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish..." - Capt. Jack Sparrow

@lilyHussey 2 ай бұрын

PLEASE make more videos on the insane biology of sea life. I'm way more interested in the ocean stuff you do. It's incredibly insightful and calming and soooo cool to learn about. I trust your channel more than any other 100% 🙏🙏 please

@Davethreshold 5 ай бұрын

That was AMAZING! In the beginning, seeing those black waves move over it, I thought those were shadows. Unbelievable! ❤

@homeslicehomeslice 5 ай бұрын

Only animal to hypnotize it prey? She forgot about the hypnotoad.

@notfunny3397 5 ай бұрын

Kinda interesting to note than even though we think of octopus and squid as pretty closely related, the fact that they have a different amount of limbs kinda suggests they are pretty distant. When's the last time you saw a primate with more than 5 limbs?

@michealwestfall8544 5 ай бұрын

Not really, it's easy for extra tentacles to appear through mutation and be useful. It's just muscle. But with skeletonal limbs, it's much harder since it needs to mutate an extra appendage with bones that connect to the rest of the skeleton; that at the very least isn't detrimental to its survival. Like fingers and toes.

@nordveld 5 ай бұрын

I would rather think of this like whales, who are descendants of ungulates who have four extremities. Whales, however, have two. Speaking of cephalopods, Nautiluses have many tentacles, squids and cuttlefish have eight plus two, octopuses have only eight. So - it is possible.

@Puzzles-Pins 5 ай бұрын

You realize it's not much different than some primates having a tail? Monkeys and apes are related, both primates. Squids and octopi are related, both cephalopods.

@blahthebiste7924 5 ай бұрын

Whales still have vestibular bones inside their bodies that used to be legs@@nordveld

@nordveld 5 ай бұрын

@@blahthebiste7924 They do. The point was: Extremities, even with bones in them, can be reduced when they are no longer needed.

@justmustard3338 5 ай бұрын

i’ve been waiting for this one since i first saw this series

@brittneyfiedler1086 5 ай бұрын

THE EPISODE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!! 🤩

@Mark-vf8op 5 ай бұрын

This was upmost informative! Thank you! 👍🏻

@sousa1534 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video! would love to see one about Ctenophores and their nervous system. Did it evolve independently? are the Ctenophora the real sister group to all Metazoan or should we stay with the Porifera as sister group?

@shashwatsagar5151 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for creating videos that reignite the kid in me who used to watch nature documentaries.

@Soledoubt 5 ай бұрын

Clear, informative and entertaining. Great channel

@reckarthack3018 5 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I need rn, thank you

@Bildad1976 5 күн бұрын

The Cuttlefish is a magnificent example of the Creator's immeasurable creativity and brilliant engineering!

@C.O._Jones 5 ай бұрын

This is so cool! I never realized how amazing cuttlefish are.

@lordofleaves257 5 ай бұрын

Been waiting on this one. Good job everyone

@namelessnavnls8060 5 ай бұрын

Forget the myth of snakes hypnotizing their prey, cuttlefish have been doing that this whole time!

@avielp 5 ай бұрын

But how do they control how much water is in the cuttlebone? Letting water in must be easier..but how do they remove the water?!

@_Solaris 5 ай бұрын

I've always wondered about that for fish in general.

@2424Lars 5 ай бұрын

Every living organism produces gas with their respiratory system, which is then pushed in and out of the swim bladder, and presumably the cuttlebone for cuttlefish. Swim bladders are what our lungs evolved from, and several species of fish can use this swim bladder to breathe oxygen from the air.

@ImWatchingYou2012 5 ай бұрын

Such a cool channel, thank you for sharing!

@hammad2870 5 ай бұрын

Ever since I was the octopus vid , I was waiting for this one

@stormytehcat 5 ай бұрын

I love cuttlefish! Thank you for doing a video on my favorite marine animal!

@AquazWild 5 ай бұрын

these videos are so good, can you make a behind-the-scenes video of how you edited this video?

@ozzygonzalez8317 5 ай бұрын

I've been waiting for this one 😍

@rontropics26 5 ай бұрын

I've kept dwarf cuttlefish for a few years now. They are so much work and cost to keep alive but they are absolutely amazing. I never get bored watching them.

@seansingh4421 5 ай бұрын

But I heard they’re the easiest cephalopods to keep in an aquarium or am I wrong? Because I was thinking about keeping one too

@rontropics26 5 ай бұрын

@@seansingh4421 I think all cephalopods are hard to keep! Perhaps easiest but still not easy. I’ve had a couple octopus too, one was pretty easy and one was super picky. Cuttlefish need a constant supply of high quality live food. As long as you ace that part you’ll be golden. If you have experience with a reef tank you’ll be good too because cutttles need perfect stable water quality similar to coral.

@313soldier313 5 ай бұрын

Awesome waking up to see this channel posted

@prithvishetty6938 5 ай бұрын

great video, learnt a lot. I was wondering how cuttlefish knew whether they are displaying the right colour (what is the feedback system?)

@TheJohn8765 5 ай бұрын

This was a really good, vid. You guys are great.

@akathoth 5 ай бұрын

I'm playing Cell to Singularity since a year now. All the bits and pieces are well put together and it does not force you to anything. It's nice that they try to explain every entity you unlock. It also features a tea event, what can you want more? Very neat time waster.

@y-u-video4596 5 ай бұрын

great work, thank you real science :)

@timothymoore8549 5 ай бұрын

Cuttlefish and octopus are fighting hard for second place when we all know squid are the most successful cephalopod

@ailenecadagat208 5 ай бұрын

Dude one time at the beach I found a cuttlebone and I didn't know what was it before so I just brought it home,a few years went then I watched this video and I saw the cuttlebone segment and thought "hey I think I have that"then I desperately trying to find it but it was thrown away.

@adi4u48821 5 ай бұрын

Amazing video, The video quality is breathtaking.

@MichaelEilers 5 ай бұрын

OG of the sea and the first topic I can remember ever using in a research paper at school.

@benmcreynolds8581 5 ай бұрын

There is not much that fascinates me more: Than Cuddlefish!

@coreylarsen5884 5 ай бұрын

I love watching theses videos

@artawhirler 5 ай бұрын

When I was a kid, I thought these creatures were called "CUDDLE fish" and probably wondered why anybody would want to do that.

@AphroditeMilo 5 ай бұрын

Cephalopods are amazing, fascinating and wonderful creatures :)

@ray4237 5 ай бұрын

love these videos

@boogersmcgee 5 ай бұрын

Hey, great content, as always, but is it possible to put freedom units on screen when you talk about centimeters or kilograms??

@ProjectPhysX 5 ай бұрын

4:14 I have found those on the beach near Rome! I've always wondered what they are since then!

@metarmored 5 ай бұрын

I can't get enough of cephalopod facts. Everytime I see another video, i cant click away

@clarifyingscience 2 ай бұрын

this is wonderful

@moorflower4118 4 ай бұрын

These videos are fantastic

@silentracer911 5 ай бұрын

They can sense and process color and texture in some way. It’s gonna be awesome when we figure out how because it’s clearly not the way we do it.

@tincanstantheman 5 ай бұрын

The worst part about a cuttlefish is when your the middle person in a3 person human centipede and the first person has it for dinner

@urmwhynot 2 ай бұрын

Cephalopods are such a fascinating group of animal

@raininginside 5 ай бұрын

Never would have imagined Cell to Singularity would sponsored a Real Science video. A great idle game btw, lots of contents with no annoying micro transaction.

@cheers2023 Сағат бұрын

It's cute when an octopus picks up its arms like a dress and walks on two legs across the ocean floor.

@BradGryphonn 5 ай бұрын

I downloaded and played the initial release of Cell to Singularity a few years back. It was an awesome 'game'.

@kriegmesserdclxvi2833 5 ай бұрын

I would love to see an experiment to see if an octopus and cuttlefish could be coaxed into cooperation on a task.

@Georami 5 ай бұрын

Great vid! Ty

@garryarganis5801 5 ай бұрын

i used to find alot of cuttlefish bones washed up by the beach and loved taking them and carefully sculpting them into tiny boats when i was a kid i would even make sails from gluing toothpicks and a piece of cloth

@skiptoacceptancemdarlin 4 ай бұрын

congratulations on being the 100,000th cuttlefish video on KZfaq!

@helloitsnicko 5 ай бұрын

Actually mind blowing

@winterbird275 5 ай бұрын

You should do a video on Nautilus next! One of the few cephalopods I rarely hear anything about

@GeoffryGifari 5 ай бұрын

Do we know why higher intelligence evolved most notably in cephalopods, when it comes to sea invertebrates?

@m222109 5 ай бұрын

wow can't believe dagon from JJK was so popular that he was created as a fish in real life as homage

@mdtaylor2274 5 ай бұрын

I’m in Portugal and this is a typical thing to eat during the summer. Taste pretty good right off the grill.

@3g0st 5 ай бұрын

I love them so much.

@TuffSZN 3 ай бұрын

Narrator: "If it feels kind of hypnotizing..." Me: *hypnotized* whaaaat

@kihntagious 5 ай бұрын

great channel! Now a sub . Ground news is what I've been searching for.

@hayley44448 4 ай бұрын

Cuttlefish are my absolute favourite 😊 watching from New Zealand 🇳🇿

@bumblebee-842 5 ай бұрын

iv'e now have a new appreciation for the cuttlefish.

@duncanwells0088 5 ай бұрын

Let us not dear friends forget our; dear friends the cuttlefish. Flipaglorious little sausages.

@yobgow Ай бұрын

Still the most amazing creature I've seen whilst diving.

@jameslmathieson 5 ай бұрын

The description of cuddle fish mating had me saying: "So, it's a bar in the SF Bay area."

@shainemaine1268 2 ай бұрын

I often use my cuddlebone to find a mate as well... (preferably one with their own cuddlebone) Ughhh thank you for teaching me this new term I'll use it always!