<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/80776463-a656-43c8-b62d-c21cb328c341/D5E9EFFF-F3F3-4D15-980D-9A57ACECCE3E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/" href="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/" style="font-size: 11px;">notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/">The best communicators know to cater to their audiences, and<A href="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlefish"> cuttlefish</A> are no different. A new study shows that these intelligent invertebrates can target their defensive signals to the hunting styles of different predators.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/"><P>The study begs the question: how do the cuttlefish tell the difference between the different predators? Even though the trained biologist’s eye could tell apart a dogfish and a seabass, they are superficially very similar. The remarkable consistency of the cuttlefishes’ responses suggests that they have access to clear clues that allow them to quickly and accurately distinguish between these groups.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/">Langridge’s study is further evidence that the intelligence of cuttlefish and their kin is a match for many back-boned animals.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/">Many of other cases of predator-specific signals come from the world of back-boned animals and I blogged about one such example earlier this year. <A href="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/ground-squirrels-use-infrared-signals-to-fool-heat-seeking-rattlesnakes/">Ground squirrels pump hot blood into their tails<IMG class="linkscent-icon" src="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/favicon.ico" clueid="favIcon" /><IMG class="linkscent-icon" src="http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/cuttlefish-tailor-their-defences-to-their-predators/chrome://interclue/content/cluecore/skins/default/pixel.gif" clueid="clueIcon" /></A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D5E9EFFF-F3F3-4D15-980D-9A57ACECCE3E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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