Cuttlefish Face Stretching, Bali

Cuttlefish store their eggs in coral, and then stretch their tentacles into the coral to fertilise them. It means they stretch their face to about twice its usual length. Really quite spooky.

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• scuba
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[tuktukskagal]

Nature;it never ceases to amaze me.

[SpaceCarnivora]

Technically they are not fish, they are mollusks, part of the Cephalopod family, which includes squid and octopus. Its unfortunate that their name is misleading.

[fakemadereal]

Cthulhu is not amused.

[Lavos2007]

ok vid author, let me explain it to you: no cephalopod known to man fertilizes the eggs after their laid, thats what Fish do, cephalopods mate with each other and fertilize the eggs before their laid, hence why cuttlefish and squid are often seen with males and females getting all touchy-feely with mating. the male is delivering the sperm to the female. fertilizing the eggs which are then laid, its the same for Cuttlefish and even Octopus just that Octopus arent seen in social groups for mating

[StarSpawn06]

@zoodle85

which alien from the SC cover ? 0,o

[thevegankid]

yea haha awesome

[rufio2never]

so if you ever thought you saw a cuttlefish feeding on coral, its okay, it was just doing the dirty.

[hitheresunshine]

you'd think the tentacles would give it away, though. misnomers suck.

[zoodle85]

He also looks like that alien from the Starcraft cover.

If you were diving around and didn't know about these creatures (and especially their color-changing ability), you would think you saw an alien - or a ghost!

[lordofchaosrb]

when it changes colors it reminds of the movie "mimic"

[hasignedon]

and they can be found in more than one place.