Walking Cuttlefish

[shipposhack]

I was searching google for pictures of S. Apama, and found a pretty cool site with nice photos of different spieces. There are also some videos. S. Latimanus walks on the bottom like A. Aculeatus does. It's even cooler to see a cuttle do it than an octo, I think. The link is direct to S. Latimanus; the one with videos. I haven't looked at all of them but out of the 3 or 4 I did look at this was the only one with videos.

http://www.seadb.univpm.it/schedule.php?ids=497#

Oddly, I don't see a description for S. Apama ^^;.

 

[DWhatley]

Great site find! The walking cuttle reminds me a lot of the Flamboyant's strut in Thales' video.

 

[Paradox]

This is pretty common for Ive observed it regularly with Bandensis and Officinalis. Ill try to collect some picture of the common things they do. Should be fun!

 

[Colin]

Yeah ditto with Dan

The sepia species quite commonly creep about using a pair of arms as legs

 

[Thales]

+1

I have some video somewhere of latimanus doing that in the wild as well.