[vimeo width =“ 680”高=“ 420”] http://vimeo.com/26347872 [/vimeo]
居住在加利福尼亚科学学院Steinhart水族馆的宽阔的墨西哥鱼正在六个月大，并且实际上已经开始展示成人的行为。有时被称为巨型墨鱼，Sepia latimanusis reported to get up to 50cm long and weight up to 10kg (though I have never seen one in the wild that size), so it makes sense that a hatchling about 1 cm long in February could be almost 18cm in July. Like all cephalopods, these large cuttlefish are eating machines, able to completely eat a silverside in under 2 minutes – with no leftovers at all. They are being fed at least 3 times a day with different feeds, live crabs, live bait shrimp, thawed prawns and thawed silversides.
With the fast growth, some issues start to appear including some minor ‘butt burn’, damage to the tip of the mantle caused by the animal jetting into the sides quickly (a big animal is a strong animal!) and inking events due to adolescent competition. To help alleviate this issues, the population has been split into two groups, 2 on display and 4 in holding. The other adult behaviors are more exciting.
在视频中（哦，蓝色的灯光和视频 - 你为什么互相讨厌？），您可以在cuttles寻找食物的皮肤上看到很多颜色，今天是我看到他们这样做的第一天狩猎时。人们认为，这场引人注目的表演对狩猎有所帮助。但是，与野生成年人不同，颜色模式尚未伸到两个手臂上，这有助于使这位纯洁的“ broadclub”通用名称在触手罢工之前水平伸展并努力努力。
这些模式似乎也起源于地幔的后部，而宽阔的成年人似乎在头部上更加脉动（如下面链接的Nova的“伪装之王”的视频所示）。The other interesting behavior in the video above is the ‘banding-of-the-eyes-darkening-of-two-arm-tips-while-gesticulating-madly’ behavior (rolls off the tongue eh?), which only seems to occur when the animals are hunting silversides.
如您所知，我对这些墨鱼的行为感到兴奋，甚至更加兴奋，他们对展示的动物的发生更加兴奋。如果您是任何形式的头脑头，并且在SF区域，我敦促您到达学院，并在展出这些惊人的动物时看一下。
[YouTube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbs3fdyildg [/YouTube]
