Cuttlefish use visual cues to determine arm postures for camouflage

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1726, 2011, Pages 84-90

  Barbosa, Alexandra ^a,b   Allen, Justine J ^b,c   Mäthger, Lydia M ^b   Hanlon, Roger T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti predator behaviour; Cephalopod behaviour; Postural camouflage; defence; Sepia officinalis; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CEPHALOPOD; COLOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PREY AVAILABILITY; TAXONOMY; VISUAL CUE;

EID: 81855184588     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0196     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Ruxton, G. D., Sherratt, T. N. and Speed, M. P. 2004 Avoiding attack: the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, warning signals, and mimicry. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198528609. 001.0001).
2. Stevens, M. and Merilaita, S. 2009 Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 423-427. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0217)
3. Poulton, E. B. 1890 The colours of animals, their meaning and use, especially considered in the case of insects. London, UK: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd.
4. Thayer, G. H. 1896 The law which underlies protective coloration. Auk 13, 124-129.
5. Thayer, G. H. 1909 Concealing-coloration in the animal kingdom. An exposition of the laws of disguise through color and pattern. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company.
6. Cott, H. B. 1940 Adaptive coloration in animals. London, UK: Methuen and Co., Ltd.
7. Wicksten, M. K. 1993 A review and a model of decorating behavior in spider crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majidae). Crustaceana 64, 314-325. (doi:10.1163/ 156854093X00667)
8. Edmunds, M. 1974 Defence in animals: a survey of antipredator defences. Harlow: Longman Group Ltd.
9. Caro, T. 2005 Antipredator defenses in birds and mammals. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
10. Oppel, B. D. and Eberhard, W. G. 1984 Resting postures of orb-weabing uloborid spiders (Aranae, Uloboridae). J. Arachnol. 11, 369-376.
11. Aiken, M. and Coyle, F. A. 2000 Habitat distribution, life history and behavior of tetracnatha spider species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. J. Arachnol. 28, 97-106. (doi:10.1636/0161-8202.(2000)028[0097:HDL HAB]2.0.CO;2)
12. Brodie, E. D. 1977 Salamander antipredator postures. Copeia 1977, 523-535. (doi:10.2307/1443271)
13. Hacker, S. D. and Madin, L. P. 1991 Why habitat architecture and color are important to shrimps living in pelagic Sargassum: use of camouflage and plant-part mimicry. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 70, 143-155. (doi:10.3354/ meps070143)
14. Webster, R. J., Callahan, A., Godin, J.-G. J. and Sherratt, T. N. 2009 Behaviourally mediated crypsis in two nocturnal moths with contrasting appearance. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 503-510. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2008. 0215)
15. Kats, L. B. and Van Dragt, R. G. 1986 Background colormatching in the spring peeper Hyla crucifer. Copeia 1986, 109-115. (doi:10.2307/1444895)
16. Sazima, I. and Uieda, V. S. 1979 Is the night-time resting behavior of young needlefish an example of nocturnal disguise? Biotropica 11, 308-309. (doi:10.2307/ 2387923)
17. Kondo, T. and Abe, N. 1995 Habitat preference, food habits and growth of juveniles of Lates angustifrons and Lates mariae (Pisces: Centropomidae) in Lake Tanganyika. Ecol. Res. 10, 275-280. (doi:10.1007/ BF02347853)
18. Migita, M., Mizukami, E. and Gunji, P. 2000 Temporal criterion for behavior: orientation of the young Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus. Behav. Processes 52, 77-87. (doi:10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00128-5.)
19. Sazima, I., Carvalho, L. N., Mendonca, F. P. and Zuanon, J. 2006 Fallen leaves on the water-bed: diurnal camouflage of three night active fish species in an Amazonian streamlet. Neotrop. Ichthyol. 4, 119-122. (doi:10.1590/ S1679-62252006000100013.
20. Koanddie;rtner, G. and Geiser, F. 1999 Roosting behaviour of the tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides). J. Zool. Lond. 248, 501-507.
21. Allen, A. A. 1915 The behavior of the least bittern. Bird-lore 17, 425-430.
22. Pietrewicz, A. T. and Kamil, A. C. 1977 Visual detection of cryptic prey by blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata). Science 195, 580-582. (doi:10.1126/science.195.4278.580)
23. Packard, A. 1972 Cephalopods and fish: the limits of convergence. Biol. Rev. 47, 241-307. (doi:10.1111/j. 1469-185.X.1972.tb00975.x)
24. Hanlon, R. T. and Messenger, J. B. 1988 Adaptive coloration in young cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis L.): the morphology and development of body patterns a their relation to behaviour. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 320, 437-487. (doi:10.1098/rstb.1988.0087)
25. Kier, W. M. and Smith, K. K. 1985 Tongues, tentacles and trunks: the biomechanics of movement in muscularhydrostats. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 83, 307-324. (doi:10. 1111/j.1096-3642.1985.tb01178.x)
26. Kier, W. M. and Thompson, J. T. 2003 Muscle arrangement, function and specialization in recent coleoids. Berliner Palaobiol. Abh. 03, 141-162.
27. Sumbre, G., Fiorito, G., Flash, T. and Hochner, B. 2005 Neurobiology: motor control of flexible octopus arms. Nature 433, 595-596. (doi:10.1038/433595a)
28. Kelman, E., Baddeley, R., Shohet, A. and Osorio, D. 2007 Perception of visual texture and the expression of disruptive camouflage by the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. Proc. R. Soc. B 274, 1369-1375. (doi:10.1098/rspb. 2007.0240)
29. Allen, J. J., Mäthger, L. M., Barbosa, A. and Hanlon, R. T. 2009 Cuttlefish use visual cues to control three-dimensional skin papillae for camouflage. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 195, 547-555. (doi:10.1007/s00359-009-0430-y)
30. Chiao, C.-C., Chubb, C., Buresch, K. C., Siemann, L. and Hanlon, R. T. 2009 The scaling effects of substrate texture on camouflage patterning in cuttlefish. Vis. Res. 49, 1647-1656. (doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.002)
31. Hanlon, R. T., Chiao, C.-C., Mäthger, L. M., Barbosa, A., Buresch, K. C. and Chubb, C. 2009 Cephalopod dynamic camouflage: bridging the continuum between background matching and disruptive coloration. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 429-437. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2008. 0270)
32. Zylinski, S., Osorio, D. and Shohet, A. J. 2009 Perception of edges and visual texture in the camouflage of the common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 439-448. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0264)
33. Barbosa, A., Mathger, L. M., Buresch, K. C., Kelly, J., Chubb, C., Chiao, C.-C. and Hanlon, R. T. 2008 Cuttlefish camouflage: the effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive patterns. Vis. Res. 48, 1242-1253. (doi:10.1016/j.visres.2008.02. 011)
34. Chiao, C.-C., Chubb, C., Buresch, K. C., Barbosa, A., Allen, J. J., Mäthger, L. M. and Hanlon, R. T. 2010 Mottle camouflage patterns in cuttlefish: quantitative characterization and visual background stimuli that evoke them. J. Exp. Biol. 213, 187-199. (doi:10.1242/ jeb.030247)
35. Barbosa, A., Litman, L. and Hanlon, R. T. 2008 Changeable cuttlefish camouflage is influenced by horizontal and vertical aspects of the visual background. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 194, 405-413. (doi:10.1007/s00359-007-0311-1)
36. Hanlon, R. T. 2007 Cephalopod dynamic camouflage. Curr. Biol. 17, R400-R404. (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007. 03.034)
37. Kelman, E. J., Osorio, D. and Baddeley, R. J. 2008 A review of cuttlefish camouflage and object recognition and evidence for depth perception. J. Exp. Biol. 211, 1757-1763. (doi:10.1242/jeb.015149)
38. Shohet, A. J., Baddeley, R. J., Anderson, J. C., Kelman, E. J. and Osorio, D. 2006 Cuttlefish responses to visual orientation of substrates, water flow and a model of motion camouflage. J. Exp. Biol. 209, 4717-4723. (doi:10.1242/jeb.02580)
39. Hanlon, R. T. and Messenger, J. B. 1996 Cephalopod behaviour. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
40. Moynihan, M. and Rodaniche, A. F. 1982 The behavior and natural history of the Caribbean reef squid Sepioteuthis sepioidea: with a consideration of social, signal and defensive patterns for difficult and dangerous environments. Adv. Ethol. 25, 1-151.
41. Moynihan, M. 1985 Communication and non-communication in cephalopods. Bloomington, IL: Indiana University Press.
42. Huffard, C. L., Boneka, F. and Full, R. J. 2005 Underwater bipedal locomotion by octopuses in disguise. Science 307, 1927. (doi:10.1126/science.1109616)
43. Huffard, C. L. 2006 Locomotion by Abdopus aculeatus (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae): walking the line between primary and secondary defenses. J. Exp. Biol. 209, 3697-3707. (doi:10.1242/jeb.02435)
44. Mather, J. A., Griebel, U. and Byrne, R. A. 2010 Squid dance: an ethogram of postures and actions of Sepioteuthis sepioidea squid with a muscular hydrostat system. Mar. Freshwater Behav. Phys. 43, 45-61. (doi:10.1080/ 10236241003660771
45. Nixon, M. and Young, J. Z. 2003 The brains and lives of cephalopods. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
46. Bush, S. L., Robinson, B. H. and Caldwell, R. L. 2009 Behaving in the dark: locomotor, chromatic, postural, and bioluminescent behaviors of the deep-sea squid Octopothethis deletron Young 1972. Biol. Bull. 216, 7-22.
47. Troscianko, T., Benton, C. P., Lovell, P. G., Tolhurst, D. J. and Pizlo, Z. 2009 Camouflage and visual perception. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 449-461. (doi:10.1098/rstb. 2008.0218