What Life Looks Like to Baby Cephalopods
In a clip from the upcoming PBS documentary Octopus: Making Contact (previously), newly hatched octopuses, squid and cuttlefish explore their respective new worlds outside the sacs that formed them. Each cephalopod engages their hard-wired instincts to search for shelter and food using shape-shifting techniques, though some are more successful at it than others.
Related Laughing Squid PostsWhy Cephalopods Lost Their Protective ShellsA Handy Alphabetical List of Facts About CephalopodsInternational Cephalopod Awareness DaysThese are all hard-wired little predators. They don't hesitate to take down prey, even when it's two or three times their size. "Just a few centimeters long, these baby flamboyant cuttles can beguile anyone with a shape shift that is out of this world.
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