Cephalopod BehaviourCambridge University Press, 1996 - 232 pages There are about 700 species of cephalopods (including the cuttlefishes, squids, octopods, and the chambered nautilus) living throughout the seas of the world. They are considered to be the most highly evolved marine invertebrates and possess elaborate sense organs, large brains and complex behavior. This book examines such behavior, summarizing field and laboratory data from a wide variety of sources in the first comprehensive account of the life of cephalopods in their natural habitats. This book surveys the way cephalopods find prey and escape predators, how they reproduce, how they learn, and how they communicate using complex body patterns. Throughout, the volume emphasizes the gaps in our knowledge in the hope of stimulating more biologists to study these beautiful and fascinating animals. Researchers in animal behavior, marine biology, and neuroscience will find the subject matter especially appealing. |
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adult agonistic animals arms attack behaviour benthic bimaculatus Biology body patterns Boletzky Boyle brain Budelmann cells cephalopods Chapter chro chromatic components chromatophores coleoids colour conspecifics copulation coral reefs countershading courtship crabs crypsis cryptic cuttlefishes dark decapods defence Deimatic Display discrimination disruptive dofleini eggs Eledone evidence example experimental feeding female fishes foraging gastropods habitat Hanlon & Forsythe Hanlon & Messenger hatchling hectocotylus iridophores jetting Journal laboratory learning leucophores light loliginid Loligo plei Lolliguncula brevis males Mangold mantle Marine Mather matophores migration molluscs Moynihan & Rodaniche muscles Nautilus Nixon O'Dor observations octopods Octopus cyanea Octopus vulgaris optic lobe organs Packard photophores Physiology postural predators prey R.E. Young R.T. Hanlon reproductive Rodaniche 1982 Sepia officinalis sepioids Sepioteuthis sepioidea shell shoal shown skin species sperm spermatophores statocysts studies substrate suckers tactics teleosts tentacles tion Tremoctopus unpublished data ventral vertical visual signals Zebra zebra bands