Angry Cuttlefish Reacts to Seeing its Image

Wait through the first minute. Pretty interesting for one shot of a very cartoon-like cephalopod.
Shepppardsays...

>> ^Payback:
Speaking of Futurama, what's up with the Hypnotoad eyes? insert alien electric machine noise



Cuttlefish eyes are among the most developed in the animal kingdom. The organogenesis of cephalopod eyes differs fundamentally from that of vertebrates like humans.

Superficial similarities between cephalopod and vertebrate eyes are thought to be examples of convergent evolution. The cuttlefish pupil is a smoothly-curving W shape. Although they cannot see color, they can perceive the polarization of light, which enhances their perception of contrast.

They have two spots of concentrated sensor cells on their retina (known as fovea), one to look more forward, and one to look more backwards. The lenses, instead of being reshaped as they are in humans, are pulled around by reshaping the entire eye in order to change focus


And before anybody thinks i'm a marine biologist, thats taken straight from the cuttlefish wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlefish

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