Diving: Cuttlefish Courtship

Cuttlefish display mutual association set to classical music. The end result is a sweet experience from the Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
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[DARKWITCHCHERYLE]

Once the female lays her eggs she dies.

[007bmac]

Yes and the male dies after he fertilizes female

as I understand it. Like octopus.

[acephantom903]

@OCEANPROAQUATICScom I know, I thought they only got to like 6 inches at most. This surpised me.

[Katana9990]

cuttlefish are second to zoidberg, err, i mean lobster

[nosondre]

Duetchland Uber alles?

[DARKWITCHCHERYLE]

yeah it sucks, i wish they both never die! but then again thats nature.

[Alberad08]

So they dance an allemande :-)

[vampirefastcode]

well now im turned on

[Blerhergner]

cuttlefish are probably the weirdest animal on the planet and they're amazing. they can go completely invisible to every predator in the ocean, and use it to get their own prey as well. that strobing technique they use is to hypnotize prey. and it always works

[hardxxcorey]

it's amazing how they move almost entirely by that weird fin that is constantly fluttering.