George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

British Author

Sam Palladio

I grew up in the Southwest of the U.K., on the coast in Cornwall. I used to keep a marine fish tank outside the house, where we would go down to the tide pools and catch fish and crabs. I think I caught a cuttlefish once.

British Actor

RJ Cyler

Calamari isn't too bad. That's what I thought cuttlefish was gonna be that. I've eaten octopus and eel and shark and sea urchin before, and - and those are good.

American Actor

Cuttlefish can change color to blend with surroundings, a concept fascinating in both science and literature.

Camouflage Masters

Cuttlefish ink is a unique ingredient used in cooking to add flavor and a deep black color to dishes.

Culinary Use

Cuttlefish are popular in public aquariums, often highlighting their interactive behavior and intelligence.

Aquarium Attraction

 We can test this camouflage, like that cuttlefish you see behind me, where we pull the rug out from under it and give it a checkerboard, and it even uses that strange visual information and does its best to match the pattern with a little ad-libbing. So other cognitive skills are important, too. The squids have a different kind of smarts, if you will.

The amazing brains and...

 He takes a step back, he's keeping off the other males by splitting his body, and comes up on the other side -- Bingo! Now, I'm told that's not not just a squid phenomenon with males, but I don't know. Cuttlefish. I love cuttlefish. This is a Giant Australian Cuttlefish.

Underwater astonishments...

 So, does animal communication exhibit any of these qualities? For crabs and cuttlefish, the answer is no. They don't combine their signals in creative ways. Those signals also don't have to be in a grammatical order, and they only communicate current conditions,

Do animals have...

 cuttlefish, fruit flies. So I was keen to get my new collaborator home to see what it could do. So I took it home and I watched. I fed it a varied diet. I observed as it networked. It formed a connection between food sources.

Heather Barnett: What...

 but the Pallas’s cat has round pupils and mongooses have goat-like pupils. And we’ve only explored a few pupil shapes. Other animals have crescent- or heart-shaped pupils. And the cuttlefish has perhaps some of the most

Why do cats have...

 A pugilistic cephalopod. What more do you want. Oh come on! It's so good. But first, let's get to grips with cephalopods. The squid, the cuttlefish and of course, the octopus.

Float Like a Butterfly…...

 david how are you doing all right how are you brett is an expert on the early stages of cephalopod life that group of animals that includes octopuses cuttlefish and squid

Baby Octopuses Hunting PIPE...

 you see how this is a good spot to enter watch how can we make them cuttlefish cuttlefish cool