Zoologger: Squid snares prey using badly blurred vision

The hunter closes in on its prey. The victim, a small and nondescript prawn, is puttering about in open water above a coral reef. The eyes of its predator, a bigfin reef squid, are locked upon it.

Then the squid starts to bob up and down, as if on an invisible trampoline. Moving forward, it suddenly lashes out with its tentacles and ensnares the hapless prawn.

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The Arm-Thrower Squid

The Arm-Thrower Squid or Octopoteuthis Deletron seems somewhat typical of deep sea squid at first glance, but has recently demonstrated a unique and rather morbid defensive mechanism; when attacked, it can detach and release one or more of its hook-lined arms, which will reflexively wrap around whatever they touch and flash from red to white while the squid makes its escape.

Many other cephalopods can shed arms when attacked, but only deletron, as far as we know, has arms adapted to actually fight back while the rest of the animal flees. It’s called “attack autonomy,” and is known in only a handful of other animals, most notably in honeybees, whose stings continue to pump venom after tearing free from the body.

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