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The basic functions of communication in aquatic animals are similar to those of terrestrial animals. In general, communication can be used to facilitate social recognition and aggregation, to locate, attract and evaluate mating partners and to engage in territorial or mating disputes. Different species of aquatic animals can sometimes communicate.
This ability almost certainly evolved primarily for camouflage, but squid use color, patterns, and flashing to communicate with each other in various courtship rituals. [21] Caribbean reef squid can even discriminate between recipients, sending one message using color patterns to a squid on their right, while they send another message to a ...
In addition to camouflage and appearing larger in the face of a threat, squids use color, patterns, and flashing to communicate with one another in various courtship rituals. Caribbean reef squid can send one message via color patterns to a squid on their right, while they send another message to a squid on their left. [9] [10]
Huge squids 'talk' to each other ... using colors
The squid’s nerves and muscles control whether the sac is expanded or contracted. When it expands, it’s like a balloon filling up with a colored liquid. ... For one thing, it fills its empty ...
Squid are capable of rapid changes in skin color and pattern through nervous system control of chromatophores. [37] In addition to camouflage and appearing larger in the face of a threat, squid use color, patterns, and flashing to communicate with one another in various courtship rituals. Caribbean reef squid can send one message via color ...
The squid floats along the water upside down with one eye aimed at the ocean floor and the other looking above. ... These two eyes allow the strawberry squid to do a remarkable thing. It can see ...
Most cephalopods rely on vision to detect predators and prey and to communicate with one another. [23] Consequently, cephalopod vision is acute: training experiments have shown that the common octopus can distinguish the brightness, size, shape, and horizontal or vertical orientation of objects.