Observations of wild hunting behaviour and bioluminescence of a large deep-sea, eight-armed squid, Taningia danae

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1613, 2007, Pages 1029-1034

  Kubodera, Tsunemi ^a   Koyama, Yasuhiro ^b   Mori, Kyoichi ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^b NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

^c Ogasawara Whale Watching Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attacking behaviours; Bioluminescence; Large deep sea squid; Ogasawara Islands; Swimming ability; Underwater high definition video camera system

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CEPHALOPOD; COURTSHIP; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; UNDERWATER CAMERA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; DEEP SEA; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUID; SWIMMING; TANINGIA DANAE; TELEVISION CAMERA; ANIMAL; CEPHALOPOD; HISTOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; BONIN ISLANDS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); TOKYO [KANTO];

CEPHALOPODA; TANINGIA DANAE;

ANIMALS; DECAPODIFORMES; LUMINESCENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 34249941307     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0236     Document Type: Article

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