Signaling to the enemy? Body pattern expression and its response to external cues during hunting in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Cephalopoda)

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 192-200

  Adamo, Shelley A ^a   Ehgoetz, Kelly ^a   Sangster, Cheryl ^a   Whitehorne, Ivy ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; CEPHALOPOD; COGNITION; PREDATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CUTTLEFISH; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COGNITION; CUES; LEARNING; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEPIA; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CEPHALOPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SEPIA OFFICINALIS; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 33745728987     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4134557     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Adamo, S. A., and R. T. Hanlon. 1996. Do cuttlefish (Cephalopoda) signal their intentions to conspecifics during agonistic encounters? Anim. Behav. 52: 73-81.
2. Blaber, S. J. M., and T. J. Wassenberg. 1989. Feeding ecology of the piscivorous birds Phalacrocorax varius, P. melanoleucos and Sterna bergii in Moreton Bay, Australia: diets and dependence on trawler discards. Mar. Biol. 101: 1-10.
3. Boal, J. G. 1996. Absence of social recognition in laboratory-reared cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, L. (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Anim. Behav. 52: 529-537.
4. Boal, J. G., K. Wittenberg, and R. T. Hanlon. 2000. Observational learning does not explain improvement in predation tactics by cuttlefish (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Behav. Proc. 52: 141-153.
5. Boal, J. G., N. Shashar, M. M. Grable, K. H. Vaughan, E. R. Loew, and R. T. Hanlon. 2004. Behavioral evidence for intraspecific signaling with achromatic and polarized light by cuttlefish (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Behaviour 141: 837-861.
6. Boycott, B. B. 1961. The functional organization of the brain of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 153: 503-534.
7. Budelmann, B. U. 1995. The cephalopod nervous system: what evolution has made of the molluscan design. Pp. 115-136 in The Nervous System of Invertebrates: An Evolutionary and Comparative Approach, O. Breidbach and W. Kutsch, eds. Birkhäuser, Basel.
8. Calvé, M. R. 2005. Individual differences in the common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. Master's thesis, Department of Biology. Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. 73 pp.
9. Darmaillacq, A. S., L. Dickel, M. P. Chichery, V. Agin, and R. Chichery. 2004. Rapid taste aversion learning in adult cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. Anim. Behav. 68: 1291-1298.
10. Dickel, L., J. G. Boal, and B. U. Budelmann. 2000. The effect of early experience on learning and memory in cuttlefish. Dev. Psychobiol. 36: 101-110.
11. Duval, P., M. P. Chichery, and R. Chichery. 1984. Prey capture by the cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis L): an experimental study of two strategies. Behav. Proc. 9: 13-21.
12. Gaston, M. R., and N. J. Tublitz. 2004. Peripheral innervation patterns and central distribution of fin chromatophore motoneurons in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis. J. Exp. Biol. 207: 3089-3098.
13. Hanlon, R. T., and J. B. Messenger. 1988. Adaptive coloration in young cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis L): the morphology and development of body patterns and their relation to behaviour. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 320: 437-487.
14. Hanlon, R. T., and J. B. Messenger. 1996. Cephalopod Behaviour. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
15. Karson, M. A., J. G. Boal, and R. T. Hanlon. 2003. Experimental evidence for spatial learning in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). J. Comp. Psychol. 117: 149-155.
16. Kelley, J. L., and A. E. Magurran. 2003. Learned predator recognition and antipredator responses in fishes. Fish Fish. 4: 216-226.
17. King, A. J., and S. A. Adamo. 2006. Ventilatory, cardiac and behavioural responses to sudden visual stimuli in resting cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis Linnaeus). J. Exp. Biol. in press.
18. King, A. J., S. M. Henderson, M. H. Schmidt, A. G. Cole, and S. A. Adamo. 2005. Using ultrasound to understand vascular and mantle contributions to venous return in the cephalopod Sepia officinalis Linnaeus. J. Exp. Biol. 208: 2071-2082.
19. Laland, K. N., C. Brown, and J. Krause. 2003. Learning in fishes: from three-second memory to culture. Fish Fish. 4: 199-202.
20. Lipinski, M. R., and S. Jackson. 1989. Surface-feeding on cephalopods by procellariiform seabirds in the southern Benguela region, South Africa. J. Zool. 218: 549-563.
21. Long, T. M., R. T. Hanlon, A. Ter Maat, and H. M. Pinsker. 1989. Non-associative learning in the squid Lolliguncula brevis (Mollusca, Cephalopoda). Mar. Behav. Physiol. 16: 1-9.
22. Mather, J. A. 1995. Cognition in cephalopods. Adv. Study Behav. 24: 317-353.
23. Mather, J. A., and R. C. Anderson. 1993. Personalities of octopuses (Octopus rubescens). J. Comp. Psychol. 107: 336-340.
24. Mather, J. A., and D. Mather. 2004. Apparent movement in a visual display: the 'passing cloud' of Octopus cyanea (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). J. Zool. 263: 89-94.
25. Mauris, E. 1989. Colour patterns and body postures related to prey capture in Sepiola affinis (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Mar. Behav. Physiol. 14: 189-200.
26. Meddis, R. 1984. Statistics Using Ranks. Blackwell, Toronto.
27. Messenger, J. B. 1968. The visual attack of the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. Anim. Behav. 16: 342-357.
28. Messenger, J. B. 2001. Cephalopod chromatophores: neurobiology and natural history. Biol. Rev. 76: 473-528.
29. Packard, A. 1972. Cephalopods and fish: the limits of convergence. Biol. Rev. 47: 241-307.
30. Packard, A., and F. G. Hochberg. 1977. Skin patterning in Octopus and other genera. Pp. 191-231 in The Biology of Cephalopods, M. Nixon and J. Messenger, eds. Academic Press, San Diego.
31. Palmer, M. E., M. R. Calvé, and S. A. Adamo. 2006. Response of female cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Cephalopoda) to mirrors and conspecifics: evidence for signaling in female cuttlefish. Anim. Cogn. 9: 151-155.
32. Poirier, R., M. P. Chichery, and L. Dickel. 2004. Effects of rearing conditions on sand digging efficiency in juvenile cuttlefish. Behav. Proc. 67: 272-279.
33. Serra, G., G. Chelazzi, and J. C. Castilla. 1997. Effects of experience and risk of predation on the foraging behaviour of the South-eastern Pacific muricid Concholepas concholepas (Mollusca: Gastropoda). J. Anim. Ecol. 66: 876-883.
34. Sinn, D. L., N. A. Perrin, J. A. Mather, and R. C. Anderson. 2001. Early temperamental traits in an octopus (Octopus bimaculoides). J. Comp. Psychol. 115: 351-364.
35. Sokal, R. R., and F. J. Rohlf. 1981. Biometry. W.H. Freeman, New York.
36. Tinbergen, N. 1969. The Study of Instinct. Oxford University Press, London.
37. Warburton, K. 2003. Learning of foraging skills by fish. Fish Fish. 4: 203-215.
38. West, L. 1986. Interindividual variation in prey selection by the snail Nucella emarginata. Ecology 67: 798-809.