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Octopuses burn more calories changing color than you use on a 25-minute run
For the first time ever, marine biologists have measured how much energy octopuses really need to change color — and it's a ...
For octopuses, changing colors is hard work
The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing ...
Calculating the energy costs of color changing in ruby octopuses
A pair of biologists at Walla Walla University, in the U.S., have developed a way to calculate the energy costs for certain ...
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For octopuses, changing colors is hard work
“Though octopuses make color change look effortless, it isn’t for them.” An octopus arm. The small dots visible on the arm are the chromatophores. Credit: Jamie Andersen Fields. Even this ...
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For octopuses, changing colors is hard work
It’s not easy being green–or blue, or purple, or orange–at least not if you’re an octopus. Cephalopods are well-known for their incredible ability to camouflage and communicate via their rapidly color ...
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The Amazing Camouflage of The Octopus Comes at a Heavy Cost
Octopuses are masters of camouflage and disguise. An alarmed octopus can vanish even while you watch, flawlessly transforming ...
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'She turns her siphon into a gun': Watch coconut octopus firing stones at fish in world-1st ...
Octopus filmed firing stones from her siphon from inside a clam shell like a sniper in never-before-seen behavior captured ...
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For octopuses, changing colors is hard work
When she's not writing, she's hopefully hiking. ArticleBody:It’s not easy being green–or blue, or purple, or orange–at least not if you’re an octopus. Cephalopods are well-known for their incredible ...