[Biology & Species] Yes, This Cuttlefish Is Wearing 3-D Glasses

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From New York Times:

When a scientist drops a shrimp in, this cousin of the squid and octopus ... There's just one unusual detail: The diminutive cephalopod is wearing ...

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From Banbury Cake:

In the study published in Science Advances, researchers also suggest that unlike other cephalopods – squid and octopus – cuttlefish have the ability ...

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From The Atlantic:

Some cuttlefish absolutely refuse to wear 3-D glasses. These relatives of squid and octopuses have blimplike bodies that end in a ring of eight arms ...

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From The Guardian:

A team of researchers have strapped a pair of 3D glasses to an unsuspecting cuttlefish and set it loose in an underwater movie theatre to work out how ...

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From Smithsonian:

Scientists Velcroed 3-D Glasses to Cuttlefish to Study Their Depth Perception ... Unlike their octopus and squid cousins, they swivel both their camera-like ... stereovision in 11 cuttlefish by situating them in a 3-D cephalopod cinema, ...

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From Science Advances:

To investigate stereopsis in a cephalopod species, we affixed “anaglyph” ... Our hypothesis that cuttlefish use stereopsis stems from the substantial ... they produce through ocular vergence (7), whereas neither squid nor octopuses ...

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From Daily Mail:

Cuttlefish with only one eye to see the shrimp took longer to position .... sets them apart from their cephalopod relatives such as squid and octopus.

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