ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2015
Freezing behaviour facilitates bioelectric crypsis in cuttlefish faced with predation risk.
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- The hunter or the hunted? Inferring benthic meso-predator behavior from swim velocity data.PeerJ · 2026Article
- The role of signal in saltatory pursuit of cryptic stationary targets.Movement ecology · 2025Article
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- Effect of estradiol and predator cues on behavior and brain responses of captive female house sparrows (Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Negative valence systems: sustained threat and the predatory imminence continuum.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2022Review
- Awareness of danger inside the egg: Evidence of innate and learned predator recognition in cuttlefish embryos.Learning & behavior · 2020Article
- Cuttlefish Early Development and Behavior Under Future High COFrontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Bridging disciplines to advance elasmobranch conservation: applications of physiological ecology.Conservation physiology · 2019Article
- Nociceptive Biology of Molluscs and Arthropods: Evolutionary Clues About Functions and Mechanisms Potentially Related to Pain.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Cephalopods, and in particular the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, are common models for studies of camouflage and predator avoidance behaviour. Preventing detection by predators is especially important to this group of animals, most of which are soft-bodied, lack physical defences, and are subject to both visually and non-visually mediated detection. Here, we report a novel cryptic mechanism in S. officinalis in which bioelectric cues are reduced via a behavioural freeze response to a predator stimulus. The reduction of bioelectric fields created by the freeze-simulating stimulus resulted in a possible decrease in shark predation risk by reducing detectability. The freeze response may also facilitate other non-visual cryptic mechanisms to lower predation risk from a wide range of predator types.
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