During the only night dive we did, in our stay in Lembeh (may 2016), we were able to see amazing things. Do you remember the lovely cuttlefish hatching… ? it was during that dive 🙂 However we enjoyed that night dive for every single little creature we saw.
That night we also manage to discover this tiny fellow, The Bob Tail Squid. We were delighted with its way of doing! Check out how smart it is. And how cute!
Bobtail squid (also known as dumpling squid and stubby squid), is a cephalopod, closely related to cuttlefish although it has no cuttlebone.
We call them Squid, but they are not true squid. They have eight suckered arms and two tentacles and are generally quite small (typical male mantle length being between 1 and 8 cm). They live in shallow coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean and some parts of the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, as well as in shallow waters on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula off South Africa. And Like cuttlefish, they can swim by using the fins on their mantle or by jet propulsion.
After watching many times this footage, we wondered what kind of squid can show such an awesome behaviour, when hiding and awaiting for prey.
Searching about that, we were happy to found out that There are a limited number of studies on the behaviour of E. scolopes (Hawaiian bobtail squid)in the wild, probably because of its nocturnal habits. Anderson and Mather (1996) in describing its escape behaviours said “these large number of unpredictable responses from a nocturnal and small sepiolid such as E. scolopes suggests a high level of neural complexity, perhaps what one might expect from a behaviorally ‘advanced’ cephalopod mollusc.
Watch it again, and pay attention how it stands and how it buries itself on the sand… It is amazing! Can’t stop smiling!
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